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Prolegomenon to the Study of Song Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Bonnie C. Wade
Bonnie C. Wade*
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University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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The study of song texts by scholars in various fields has taken many directions. Some of those directions have been the result of particular disciplinary methodology such as literary history and criticism, history, folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and musicology. Others have been the result of peculiarities of a language, such as the problems of song in tone languages. This article is an introduction to and analysis and reinterpretation of some of the approaches to the study of song texts which seem at this time to present fruitful avenues for future research.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 8 , 1976 , pp. 73 - 88
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Copyright © 1977 By the International Folk Music Council 

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