The goal of this study is to elucidate the similarities between the grammar of
oral folk music and oral language grammar through field examples from Grupo
Kultura, a group of neo-Latin American musicians in the mid-Willamette Valley area
of Oregon.
The linguistic analysis of oral folk music explores textual and contextual
issues which serve to highlight the need to include such forms of communication as
music in an expanded view of "language." It suggests both fluid and non-fluid
boundaries between spoken language and oral folk music. Of particular emphasis
are the potential ability of music to express deep emotional content in music and the
possible decoding of that content's musical meaning.
Data was collected through ethnographic interviews and participant
observation. / Graduation date: 1998
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/28465 |
| Date | 08 August 1997 |
| Creators | Herrera, Tere Lynn |
| Contributors | Paige, Barbara |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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