Sardinian Chronicles

Name: Sardinian Chronicles
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ISBN: 9780226493411

ISBN-10: 0226493415

ISBN-13: 9780226493411

Edition: 1994

Authors: Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Teresa Lavender Fagan, Michel Leiris

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In Sardinian Chronicles Bernard Lortat-Jacob poetically evokes Sardinian music through a series of encounters with individual musicians and their families. Refusing to separate the music from the world in which it arises, Lortat-Jacob offers twelve vignettes focused on individuals such as Cocco, a chicken farmer who deciphers the shapes of his fowl and the layout of his henhouses in the constellations of a summer sky, and Pietro, a sleep-walking postman who divides his time between mail deliveries and impromptu serenades. These vignettes bring to life an art still very much alive: the music of villages with an oral tradition, sung or played in the company of others.Through his sensitive…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.85" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.



Foreword


The Ferry Desulo Oliena Orgosolo Muravera Jerzu Thiesi Irgoli Santu Lussurgiu Castelsardo Aggius Sassari Other Works Bernard Lortat-Jacob Contents of the Compact Disk


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