Overview

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.

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Author:   Leslie C. Dunn ,  Katherine R. Larson ,  Professor Allyson M. Poska ,  Professor Abby Zanger
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781472443410

ISBN 10:   1472443411
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   20 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Leslie C. Dunn and Katherine R. Larson; Performing women in English books of Ayres, Scott A. Trudell; Witches, lamenting women, and cautionary tales: tracing 'The Ladies Fall' in early modern English broadside balladry and popular song, Sarah F. Williams; Listening to black magic women: the early modern soundscapes of witch drama and the New World, Jennifer Linhart Wood; 'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit': song, fooling, and intellectual disability in Shakespearean drama, Angela Heetderks; Dangerous performance: Cupid in early modern pedagogical masques, Amanda Eubanks Winkler; Making music fit for kings: reforming and gendering music in Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, Joseph M. Ortiz; Unimportant women: the 'sweet descants' of Mary Sidney and Richard Crashaw, Tessie L. Prakas; Domestic song and the circulation of masculine social energy in early modern England, Linda Phyllis Austern; Song, political resistance, and masculinity in Thomas Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece, Nora L. Corrigan; Music for Helen: the fitful changes of Troilus and Cressida, Erin Minear; The use of early modern music in film scoring for Elizabeth I, Kendra Preston Leonard; Select bibliography; Index.

Reviews

Leslie Dunn and Katherine Larson have assembled a most interesting volume that approaches the topic of song in early modern England through a unique interdisciplinary lens that crosses an expanse of time and space. Its wide-ranging perspective, made possible by the contributions from scholars in several different fields, makes for an articulate and important contribution to the scholarship in all the areas it touches: gender and cultural studies, musicology, and early modern literature and language. -Candace Bailey, North Carolina Central University, USA

Author Information

Leslie C. Dunn is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. Katherine R. Larson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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