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Free-Standing
Lecture: Language in Performance
Downloads Spring Semester 2020
Introduction
This page contains the material that we cover in the sessions of the lecture, i.e the PowerPoint presentation and the link to the podcast as well as handouts.It also contains or references to texts, which are required reading and study material.
All of the above handouts, podcast or Powerpoint presentations and reading texts must be covered, especially if students miss a session.
In the last column there are links to PDFs with excerpts from other sources which cover the same ground as we have dealt with in class, often from a different angle. It is useful for students to be aware of alternative approaches to the topics which the lecture covers, which is why such further reading is very important for an understanding of the concepts we deal with in this lecture.
Information on the submission of the 'take-home messages'
To stem the flow of emails on this topic:- Formulate your own messages, do not copy them from other students.
- Compile them in this list / table, not on individual sheets for each message (save trees...).
- Short statements, perhaps a couple of sentences each, but certainly not a whole lengthy summary, are all that is required, Clearly content is more important than number of words, so quality not quantitiy.
- Submit the lists in a hard copy, i.e. as a print-out(!),
either in my pigeonhole at the secretariat or in the box outside it a the dates listed below
- The
piece of paper will do, no folders or plastic covers are needed (and
they only clutter up my already cluttered office...)
Hand-in dates
Always in the morning
- 23 March
- 24 April
- 28 May (notice, this is the Thursday, rather than a Friday)
| Content | Material
for Downloading | PowerPoint
Presentation | Podcast
Link | Further
reading / additional material |
Session 14: Whither Sociolinguistics, whither folk song?
| Handout Quotes, links and lyrics | 14. Whither sociolinguistics, whither folk song? | 14. Whither sociolinguistics, whither folk song? | And perhaps as a bit of light relief if you haven't seen and heard it already: Corona Mr Sandman |
Session 13: Enregisterment 2
| Handout Quotes, links and lyrics | 13. Enregisterment through song (2) | 13. Enregisterment through song (2) | Keying in and out: Transcript of Maddy Prior's concert 'Back to the Tradition (2008) |
Session 12: Going Out There IIEnregisterment 1 | Handout Quotes and lyrics | 12. Energisterment through song (1) | 12 Enregisterment through song (1) | Agha 2005: Voice, Footing, Enregisterment |
Session 11: Going out there and doing your thing I | Handout Quotes, lyrics and links | 11. Going out there and doing your thing | 11. Going out there and doing your thing. | Nothing for once... But ig you are interested in the Folk Tale you can read up on it here. |
Session 10: 'Text' | Handout Quotes and lyrics | 10. 'Text' | 10. 'Text' | Bauman and Briggs 2009: Performance and Poetics |
Session 9: Voices in Folk Song | Handout Quotes but mainly Lyrics | 9. Voices | 9. Voices | Johnstone 2000: The Individual Voice in Language |
Session 8: Insects Caught in AmberAs an example for a musical (?) performance on the right-hand side of the spectrum (Slide 15, "Perpetuation in recordings") here is an example of yours truly recording a song with his two triplet brothers; the song is a tribute to song writer John Prine, who died of Covid-19 on 7 April. The song is also on my facebook page. | Handout Quotes and Lyrics | 8. Insects in Amber Slideshow | 8. Insects in Amber | Bronson 1945: Mrs Brown and the Ballad. |
Session 7: Ideologies, Tradition and AuthenticityOnly one song today, The Cruel Mother, (Child Ballad 20) but a haunting one and one you can sing along with.The social stigma of children born out of wedlock (with the
woman usually being abandoned by the child’s father as well as her family) was
such that there were periods in history where the number of executions for
infanticide were higher than for witchcraft. | Handout Quotes and Lyrics | 7. Ideologies etc. Slideshow | 7. Ideologies etc. In the slideshow on the left, the stanzas in "The Cruel Mother" are correctly numbered. | Coupland (2010): The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community |
Session 6: Variation | Handout Quotes and Lyrics | 6. Variation Slideshow | 6 Variation | |
Session 5: Answering back in Folk Song | Handout Quotes and Lyrics | 5. Answering Back Slideshow | 5. Answering Back I would like to apologise for not having included this first song, Hard Times, around 24 minutes in | Garbedian (2006): Protest Song in the 30s and 40s |
Session 4: Creating a "Folk" |
Handout Quotes and Lyrics |
4. Creating a "Folk" Slideshow |
4. Creating a "Folk" | An interesting 1947 documentary about folk traditions in the US And an interesting post about communal singing in coronavirus closed down Italy... |
Session 3: Performance, what Performance? | Handout Quotes and Lyrics | 3. Performance, what Performance? Slideshow |
3. Performance, what Performance? |
Hymes 1975 [1973] Breakthrough into Performance Bauman and Briggs 1990: Performance and Poetics |
Session 2:
| Handout Quotes and Lyrics | 2. Languaging and Musicking Slideshow | 2. Languaging and Musicking | Further Reading on evolutionary issues Gould 1997 Gould and Lewontin 1979 Pinker and Bloom 1997 Berra et al Poster A very good TED talk on the "Evolution of Beauty" Also a lot of interesting information on evolutionary processes can be found at this website |
Session 1:
| Handout: Quotes and Lyrics | 1. Where to Start Slideshow To be uploaded after the lecture | 1. Where to Start To be uploaded after the lecture | Further
reading: Feld and Fox 1994: Language and Music And this youtube clip is an illustration of the power of song, of bringing justice after more than 50 years. |