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Village song & culture: A study based on the Blunt collection of song from Adderbury, north Oxfordshire

Village song & culture: A study based on the Blunt collection of song from Adderbury, north Oxfordshire

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Village song & culture: A study based on the Blunt collection of song from Adderbury, north Oxfordshire

by Pickering, Michael

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9780709900597
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HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Croom Helm.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Monochrome (green and white) photo illustrated dust wrapper showing country woman with broom in front of home. 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, no visible faults. FINE.* 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 jacket FAULTS reducing it to VG.*

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'On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens. In an incredibly short space of time, a number of unique species had vanished...' Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, and by the 1970s it still had many unique but endangered species, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails.When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly. He spent nights in the jungle looking for bats and pink pigeons, and climbed near-vertical rock faces to find Telfair's skinks and Gunther's geckos, spending his spare time exploring the enchanted worlds of the coral reefs with their many species of multicoloured fish. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius.

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Title
Village song & culture: A study based on the Blunt collection of song from Adderbury, north Oxfordshire
Author
Pickering, Michael
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - F/F/VG
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0709900597
ISBN 13
9780709900597
Publisher
Croom Helm
Place of Publication
London Uk 187
Date Published
1982-01-01

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