Sardinian chronicles.
In Sardinian Chronicles Bernard Lortat-Jacob poetically evokes Sardinian music through a series of encounters with individual musicians and their families. Refusing to separate the music from the world in which it arises, Lortat-Jacob offers twelve vignettes focused on individuals such as Cocco, a c...
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| Formato: | Ouvrage |
| Idioma: | Anglais Français |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès en ligne aux documents sonores |
| Summary: | In Sardinian Chronicles Bernard Lortat-Jacob poetically evokes Sardinian music through a series of encounters with individual musicians and their families. Refusing to separate the music from the world in which it arises, Lortat-Jacob offers twelve vignettes focused on individuals such as Cocco, a chicken farmer who deciphers the shapes of his fowl and the layout of his henhouses in the constellations of a summer sky, and Pietro, a sleep-walking postman who divides his time between mail deliveries and impromptu serenades. These vignettes bring to life an art still very much alive: the music of villages with an oral tradition, sung or played in the company of others.
Through his sensitive portraits of music makers and their families, Lortat-Jacob overcomes some of the epistemological and methodological dilemmas facing his field today, while also giving the general reader a sense of the multiple and idiosyncratic ways that music is involved in everyday life. With a foreword by Michel Leiris and a compact disc containing samples of the music being discussed, this book constitutes a breakthrough in ethnomusicology that will also interest many in Mediterranean studies and European anthropology -- Présentation de l'éditeur. |
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| descrición da copia: | Titre original : "Chroniques sardes" |
| Descrición Física: | x-118 p. : ill., photogr. + 1 CD (Di 95.12.1) - CNRSMH_E_1995_012_001 |
| Bibliografía: | Bibliogr., index. |
| ISBN: | 0226493415 |