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.
ISBN: | 9781472443410 |
Publication date: | 20th November 2014 |
Author: | Leslie C Dunn, Katherine Rebecca Larson |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 236 pages |
Series: | Women and Gender in the Early Modern World |
Genres: |
The arts: general topics Popular culture Media studies Art music, orchestral and formal music Popular music Literary studies: general History |