@inbook{b59a6ef182174f8daa05e9111cb037ea,
title = "Anchors and Sails: Music and Culture Contact in Corsica",
abstract = "The chapter explores the extent to which Corsica's pivotal position in the Mediterranean has affected the development of indigenous musical styles and practices. I begin with a brief examination of the types of influences and affinities that have been postulated for Corsica{\textquoteright}s musical evolution. It is only in the island{\textquoteright}s more recent history, however, that it is possible to document with a surer confidence instances of direct intercultural contact on a specifically musical plane and it is to an exploration of some of the most recent cases that I turn my attention in the second half of the chapter. In the course of this discussion with its more global frame of reference, I aim to offer an insight into the motivations behind contacts that have been actively courted and the implications of both literal contacts and perceived affinities at both a practical and a politico-philosophical level. Finally I refocus on the question of 'Mediterranean' music as I examine the impulse on the part of contemporary Corsican musicians to explore the specifically Mediterranean roots of their island{\textquoteright}s music and, in some cases, to forge links with musics and musicians from other Mediterranean traditions based on a perception of shared heritage.",
keywords = "Corsica, Culture contact , World music fusion, Mediterranean identities, Music of oral tradition",
author = "Caroline Bithell",
year = "2005",
language = "English",
isbn = "0-8108-5407-4",
series = "Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities",
publisher = "Scarecrow Press",
pages = "155--177",
editor = "Cooper, {David } and Kevin Dawe",
booktitle = "The Mediterranean in Music",
address = "United States",
edition = "1",
}