Most songs collected are love songs, touching on themes of nostalgia and saudade as well as lively dances. The collection process involved interviewing people and learning about their lives through songs linked to agricultural work and annual cycles. The dataset was coordinated by Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso and last updated in May 2024.
Use Cases
- Analyze lyrical themes and structures in Iberian folk music based on the described prevalence of love songs.
- Study the relationship between music and agricultural labor cycles based on the description of songs linked to work.
- Research the evolution of folk music collection and dissemination practices based on the described methodological shift over time.
- Examine the role of dance and social competition in folk traditions based on the mention of saias and jotas de pique.
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific cultural region (Olivenza), providing geographic specificity.
- Describes a methodological evolution from simple collection to research and arrangement.
- Content is described as covering multiple song types, including love songs and work songs.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Collected via interviews, focusing on songs linked to agricultural work and annual cycles.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-05-05 05:25:04; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Likely focuses on the Olivenza region.