"In collaboration with AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing)."

English Caribbean : when people cannot talk, they sing / Ijahnya Christian -- Spanish Caribbean : liquid identities / Soraya Marcano -- French Caribbean : Adieu foulard, adieu madras : a sonic study in (post)colonialism / Yoko Oryu and Godfrey Baldacchino -- Cape Breton Island : living in the past? Gaelic language, song and competition / Heather Sparling -- Newfoundland : from Ron Hynes to Hey Rosetta! / Deatra Walsh -- Scotland's Hebrides : song and culture, transmission and transformation / Ray Burnett and Kathryn Burnett -- Jersey : Jèrriais, song and language revitalization / Henry Johnson -- Papua New Guinea : popular music and the continuity of tradition : an ethnographic study of songs by the band Paramana Strangers / Oli Wilson -- Fiji islands : a sustainable future for sigidrigi? / Jennifer Cattermole -- Chiloé : an offshore song culture / Waldo Garrido and Philip Hayward -- Crete : souls of soil : island identity through song / Maria Hnaraki -- Sicily : navigating responses to global cultural patterns / Sergio Bonanzinga -- Aeolian islands : three singers, their folk songs and the interpretation of tradition / Cristoforo Garigliano -- Ibiza and Formentera : worlds of singers and songs / Judith R. Cohen -- Gotland : where "folk culture" and "island" overlap / Owe Ronström.

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"Through the close analysis of musical performance and tradition, the scholarly contributiors to Island Songs provide a global review of how island songs, their lyrics, and their singers engage with the challenges of modernity, migration , and social change uncovering common patterns despite the diversity and local character of their subjects"--Cover p. [4].