- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Text I
- Introduction
- Text II
- I Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Text III
- 2 Singing the unspeakable
- Text IV
- 3 ‘God was in France all Friday’: incoherence from the inside
- Text V
- 4 Sea-changes: minimal texts as regenerative forms
- Text VI
- 5 Forgetting as in(ter)vention: memory and context in very short songs
- Text VII*
- 6 Beating time: resistance and the subaltern voice in prison work songs
- Text VIII
- 7 Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Text IX*
- 8 The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Text X*
- Conclusion
- Text XI
- Intertexts: contexts
- Works cited
- Index of songs
- General index
Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Chapter:
- (p.156) (p.157) 7 Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Source:
- Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song
- Author(s):
Mary-Ann Constantine
Gerald Porter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses the assumption that certain groups — specifically inhabitants of ‘border’ areas — are prone to produce song fragments. It focuses on the act of perception and the material itself. The first section has a brief discussion on the concept of ‘Celtic’, its development and its effects on the study of literature and song. The chapter also presents a case-study that shows how the centre-to-margins pattern of perception evident in ‘outside’ dealings with the Celtic-speaking cultures can recur internally.
Keywords: song fragments, perception, Celtic, patterns of perception, outside dealings, literature
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Text I
- Introduction
- Text II
- I Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Text III
- 2 Singing the unspeakable
- Text IV
- 3 ‘God was in France all Friday’: incoherence from the inside
- Text V
- 4 Sea-changes: minimal texts as regenerative forms
- Text VI
- 5 Forgetting as in(ter)vention: memory and context in very short songs
- Text VII*
- 6 Beating time: resistance and the subaltern voice in prison work songs
- Text VIII
- 7 Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Text IX*
- 8 The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Text X*
- Conclusion
- Text XI
- Intertexts: contexts
- Works cited
- Index of songs
- General index
