Transported by Song Corsican Voices from Oral

"Transported by Song Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage represents the first English-language treatise on Corsican-music, chronicling the evolution of Corsican music from the early 20th century to the present and charting its progression from the world of oral tradition to a vibrant new performance culture maintained by an expanding cohort of cosmopolitan players. Drawing on extensile fieldwork, comprehensive interviews, and close observation of Corsican affairs, Caroline Bithell maps out the social, cultural economic and political climate of Corsica in the 20th and early 21st centuries offering insights into the way French cultural policy, decentralization legislation and European Union funding structures have affected musical activity on the island."--BOOK JACKET.

Caroline Bithell teaches courses in ethnomusicology, world music, and arts administration at the University of Manchester, UK.

Introduction : engaging with musical traditions in Corsica
Island culture, traditional song, and the Corsican sound : historical and conceptual roots
Histories and identities : the island and its people	p. 3
Songs of the oral tradition : genres and contexts	p. 17
The Corsican sound and the power of song	p. 57
Mobilizing tradition in a secular age : cultural identity and musical reincarnations
Traditional music, Chanson, and folklore c. 1920-1970 : the challenge of modernity	p. 85
The Riacquistu : cultural associations, musical militants, and the generation of 1970	p. 109
Cultural development and polyphonic renaissance in the 1980s	p. 141
Bridging worlds : contemporary voices, local realities, and transnational processes
Multiculturalism, world music, metissage, and polyphony : navigating transnational spaces	p. 165
Corsican identity in the New Europe : Mediterraneanism, cultural policy, and support for creative development	p. 203
Professional groups, performance culture, and the living tradition in a new millennium	p. 227
Epilogue : Corsican voices in the twenty-first century	p. 265
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Transported by Song Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage

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