Music, Words and Voice: A Reader

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