Contents
- 1. Introduction. Martin Clayton
- Part I . Words and music
- 2. The first voices, Jean Jacques Rousseau
- 3. The beginnings of music, Charles S. Myers
- 4. The boundaries of speech and song, George List
- 5. The separation of speech and song, Jacques Derrida
- 6. Poetry and music, Richard Wagner
- 7. Oral mnemonics for the Japanese noh flute, David Hughes
- 8. Drum signalling in a West African tribe, George Herzog
- Part II . Song, text and voice
- 9. The voice as a musical instrument, Simon Frith
- 10. Working class 'country', Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello and David Samuels
- 11. Music, voice, language, Roland Barthes
- 12. 'Hey Jude', Tim Riley
- 13. The voice of Egypt, Virginia Danielson
- 14. Siddheshwari Devi sings Sheila Dhar
- 15. Text and performance in thumri, Peter Manuel
- Part III . Song performance and society
- 16. The meaning of song, Victor Zuckerkandl
- 17. Hazara lullabies, Hiromi Lorraine Sakata
- 18. Race, class and gender in Carmen, Susan McClary
- 19. Oh Brother where art thou? and the blues, Richard Middleton
- 20. Juju live, Christopher Waterman
- 21. Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in the music of Public Enemy, Robert Walse
- 22. The Maori haka, Jan Bolwell and Keri Kaa
- Part IV . Song and ritual
- 23. Wassailing in Somerset, Kingsley Palmer and Bob Patten
- 24. The carol revival, Frank Howes
- 25. Papal legislation on sacred music, Robert F. Hayburn
- 26. Jungle paths and spirit songs, Marina Roseman
- 27. The Karelian lament, Elizabeth Tolbert
- 28. Russian wedding rituals and Stravinsky, Richard Taruskin
- 29. Lamenting in Stravinsky's Les Noces, Pieter C. Van den Toorn
- Part V . Words, music and narrative
- 30. The Sicilian cantastorie, Mauro Geraci
- 31. Song and performance, Edward Cone
- 32. The 'Bell Song', Carolyn Abbate
- 33. The little blueprint - an amplification of the meaning of 'libretto', Gordon Kalton Williams
- 34. Sondheim's technique, Stephen Sondheim and Trevor Herbert
- 35. Writing lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein
- 36. Afternoon Raag, Amit Chaudhuri
- 37. The Vinteuil Sonata, Marcel Proust List of illustrations List of sources