Dr Caroline Bithell - publications

Authored book

• Bithell, Caroline. Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage. Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities. 5, Lanham, MA: Scarecrow Press, 2007. eScholarID:4b1230

Edited book

• Bithell, Caroline. Caroline Bithell. ed. The Past in Music (published as special themed issue of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum). Ethnomusicology Forum. Abingdon: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2006. eScholarID:107545

Book contribution

• Bithell, Caroline. "The Renaissance of the Corsican Confraternities and their Musical Negotiations." In The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities, ed. Suzel Reily and Jonathan Dueck, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. eScholarID:145106
• Bithell, Caroline. "Polyphony in the Global Village: Motives and Meanings." In The Fourth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, ed. Rusudan Tsurtsumia and Joseph Jordania, 563-571. Tbilisi: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2010. eScholarID:45271
• Bithell, Caroline. "Singing out of Other Throats: Performing Corsican Polyphony from the Outside In." In The Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean: Interpretation, Performance, Identity, ed. Philip V. Bohlman and Marcello Sorce Keller, 159-167. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 2009. eScholarID:3b3141
• Bithell, Caroline. "A Song of Many Colours: Musical Hybridity in Corsica." In The Human World and Musical Diversity, ed. Rosemary Statelova et al, 117-123. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Science, 2008. eScholarID:3b3142
• Bithell, Caroline. "Praisesong to the Ancestors and the Post-new Nuclear Family." In The New (Ethno)musicologies, ed. Henry Stobart, 76-82. Lanham, MA: Scarecrow Press, 2008. eScholarID:3b3140
• Bithell, Caroline. "Anchors and Sails: Music and Culture Contact in Corsica." In The Mediterranean in Music: Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cultural Differences, ed. David Cooper and Kevin Dawe, 155-177. Lanham. MA: Scarecrow Press, 2005. eScholarID:3b1973
• Bithell, Caroline. "Popular Music in Corsica." In The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, ed. John Shepherd, David Horn and Dave Laing, 177-179. London: Continuum Press, 2005. eScholarID:43502
• Bithell, Caroline. "A Man's Game? Engendered Song and the Changing Dynamics of Musical Activity in Corsica." In Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean, ed. Tullia Magrini, 33-66. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. eScholarID:3b1971
• Bithell, Caroline. "Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the Soul." In Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe, ed. Martin Stokes and Philip V. Bohlman, 27-72. Lanham. MA: Scarecrow Press, 2003. eScholarID:3b1972
• Bithell, Caroline. "Corsica." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 505-507. London: Macmillan, 2001. eScholarID:43583
• Bithell, Caroline. "Polyphony. II Non-Western: §2 Mediterranean." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 79-80. London: Macmillan, 2001. eScholarID:43564
• Bithell, Caroline. "Timothy Rice." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 325-325. London: Macmillan, 2001. eScholarID:43643
• Bithell, Caroline. "Polyphony in the Corsican Tradition: Structure, Style, Contexts, Motivation." In Problems of Folk Polyphony, ed. Rusudan Tsurtsumia, 4-19. Tbilisi: V. Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 2000. eScholarID:3b3143
• Bithell, Caroline. "The Corsican Sound: Identity, Evolution and Transformation." In Problems of Folk Polyphony, ed. Rusudan Tsurtsumia, 29-41. Tbilisi: V. Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 2000. eScholarID:3b3144

Journal article

• Bithell, Caroline. "Songs, Sounds and Sentiments in Translation: The Transnational Travels of Corsican and Georgian Polyphony." Journal of Mediterranean Studies 21, no. 2(2012) . eScholarID:145109
• Bithell, Caroline. "Desperately Seeking Impact." Ethnomusicology Forum 20, no. 2(2011) : 233-244. eScholarID:145126 | DOI:10.1080/17411912.2011.596397
• Bithell, Caroline. "Musical Archaeologists: The Revival and Reconstruction of Polyphonic Masses in Corsica." Ethnomusicology Forum (special issue The Past in Music, edited by Caroline Bithell) 15, no. 1(2006) : 113-145. eScholarID:1b5607 | DOI:10.1080/17411910600634395
• Bithell, Caroline. "The Past in Music: Introduction." Ethnomusicology Forum (special issue The Past in Music, edited by Caroline Bithell) 15, no. 1(2006) : 3-16. eScholarID:1b5606 | DOI:10.1080/17411910600634213
• Bithell, Caroline. "On the Playing Fields of the World (and Corsica): Politics, Power, Passion and Polyphony." British Journal of Ethnomusicology (special issue Fieldwork Impact, edited by Timothy Cooley) 12, no. 1(2003) : 67-95. eScholarID:1b3541
• Bithell, Caroline. "Telling a Tree by its Blossom: The Notion of a Traditional Music of the 21st Century." Music and Anthropology 6(2001) . eScholarID:1b8219
• Bithell, Caroline. "Review Essay: Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Chants de Passion." British Journal of Ethnomusicology 8(1999) : 116-122. eScholarID:43601
• Bithell, Caroline. "Polyphonic Voices: National Identity, World Music and the Recording of Traditional Music in Corsica." British Journal of Ethnomusicology 5(1996) : 39-66. eScholarID:1b5608

Conference contribution

• Bithell, Caroline. 2010. Europe to the Rescue? Traditional Music, Cultural Policy and Changing Definitions of Heritage in Corsica. In Making European Cultural Heritage (Chimera Workshop)19 March 2010 - 20 March 2010. University of Manchester, UK. eScholarID:111822
• Bithell, Caroline. 2010. Ripples in a Sea of (Ex)change: Songs and Sentiments in Translation. In Musical Translations Across the Mediterranean01 July 2010 - 04 July 2010. University of Malta, Valetta, Malta. eScholarID:111801
• Bithell, Caroline. 2009. Bringing it Home: Multicultural Policy, British Identity and the Imagined Village. In Borderless Ethnomusicologies (The Society for Ethnomusicology 54th Annual Conference)19 November 2009 - 22 November 2009. Mexico City. eScholarID:111806
• Bithell, Caroline. 2008. A Different Voice, a Different Song: the Natural Voice, Community Choirs and World Song in the UK. In Ethnomusicology Beyond Disciplines (The Society for Ethnomusicology 53rd Annual Conference)25 October 2008 - 28 October 2008. Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA. eScholarID:111807
• Bithell, Caroline. 2007. Multipart Singing in Corsica: Continuity and Renewal. In Multipart Singing in Europe: Historical Trajectories and Current Perspectives04 October 2007 - 06 October 2007. Portel, Portugal. eScholarID:111799
• Bithell, Caroline. 2007. Researchers, Promoters and Practitioners: Ethnomusicology, Folklore and Heritage in Corsica. In National Ethnomusicologies: The European Perspective27 April 2007 - 29 April 2007. University of Cardiff, Wales. eScholarID:111802
• Bithell, Caroline. 2006. A Song of Many Colours: Musical Hybridity in Corsica. In Fourth Meeting of the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) Study Group “Music and Minorities”25 August 2006 - 01 September 2006. Varna, Bulgaria. eScholarID:111809
• Bithell, Caroline. 2006. Cultural Activism, World Music and Cosmopolitan Mentalities in Corsica. In Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology (ASA Diamond Jubilee Conference)10 April 2006 - 13 April 2006. Keele University, UK. eScholarID:111816
• Bithell, Caroline. 2006. Singing as Gendered Experience: The Psychosocial, Transcendental and Quasi-erotic Dimensions of Men’s Polyphonic Singing in Corsica. In Sexuality and Gender in Performance, Fieldwork and Representation (2006 Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology)31 March 2006 - 03 April 2006. University of Winchester, UK. eScholarID:111811
• Bithell, Caroline. Unlocking the Power of Song: Non-native Performers of Georgian Polyphony and their Quest for the Georgian Sound. In 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music13 July 2011 - 19 July 2011. St. John's, Newfoundland. eScholarID:145143