Village Song and Culture: (Copy 2), Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire Hardcover - 1982

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Croom Helm.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear, no other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Monochrome (green and white) photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing country woman with broom in front of cottage. Yellow and white text. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.50. Light shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, absolutely minimal age. VG++.* Illustrations: Two-page b/w line drawn source map at front.* Pages: 179 pp. text. viii pp. notes & index at rear.* Description: 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, territorial orientations and cultural relationships. The actual ways in which songs were part of village life is of course highly problematic, but this book endeavours, most of all, to present an understanding of the place of song in the social life of villagers.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st.with minor faults reducing it to VG++.*