Sardinian Chronicles

by Bernard Lortat-Jacob

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226493415
• ISBN13: 9780226493411
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Interesting introduction

This book is a well-written series of suggestive, diary-like vignettes. If you pay attention and read between the lines, you can come away feeling satisfied you know a fair bit more about Sardinians, the forces that affect their communities, and, by extension, their music. Some musical examples in notation would have been helpful. The CD of field recordings is superb.