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‘God was in France all Friday’: incoherence from the inside
Mary-Ann Constantine and Gerald Porter
in Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262887
- eISBN:
- 9780191734441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262887.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter discusses a comparison of the scholarly criteria used to describe ‘nonsense’ with the attitudes of singers, in the mutually related areas of lexical corruption and narrative collapse. ... More
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