Description: Icelandic Men and Me : Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life, Hardcover by Faulkner, Robert, ISBN 1409449769, ISBN-13 9781409449768, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A sparsely populated island in the North Atlantic recently made worldwide headlines in the Global Financial Crisis and for volcanic eruptions that caused unprecedented chaos to international air travel. Large contemporary audiences have formed very different images of Iceland through the vocal music and music videos of Björk and Sigur Rós. Just below the Arctic Circle, Icelandic men engage in more everyday vocal practices, where singing, literally for one's Self, is an everyday life skill set against a backdrop of unique natural, historical, economic and social phenomena. Their sagas of song and singing are the subject of this book. The original Icelandic Sagas - among the most important collections of medieval European literature - are valued for richly detailed portrayals of individual lives. This book's principle protagonists and collaborators share a heritage where Sagas remain central to national and local identity. While the oral traditions associated with them were largely overwhelmed by European romanticism just over a hundred years ago, ironically, this new vocal music became a key technology for national renewal. Written by an ’immigrant’ musician who lived in a remote Icelandic community for over twenty years, this volume focuses upon individual and collective stories about singing as personal and social work. Drawing upon everyday ethnographic and sociological studies of music, and emerging discourse about musical identity, the study uses anthropological, historical and musicological evidence in thinking about songs, singing and Self, and the genderedness of this particular singing practice.
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Book Title: Icelandic Men and Me : Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life
Number of Pages: 252 Pages
Publication Name: Icelandic Men and Me : Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Gender Studies, Poetry, Genres & Styles / International
Publication Year: 2013
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Robert Faulkner
Subject Area: Music, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Soas Studies in Music Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
