Village Song & Culture: A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury North Oxfordshire

by Michael Pickering

Originally published in 1982. The songs on which this study is based were once vibrant in the throats and ears and minds of living people. This book examines the songs and their meanings in relation to the lives of those people, and relates them to the cultural tradition and practice of which they were an integral part. The art of village song represents a sense of cohesiveness and mutual identity around local patterns of kinship, social groupings,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138122718
• ISBN13: 9781138122710
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"