Small island cultures often provide geographical contexts that can nurture the development of unique song styles, repertoires, and performance settings. The relative isolation of many such islands, along with their defining geo-graphic, political, social, and cultural characteristics, contributes to culture creation through song and offers islanders distinct ways of expressing indi

In Godfrey Baldacchino (ed.), Island Songs: A Global Repertoire. Scarecrow Press. pp. 103 (2011)
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