Music Body And Desire In Medieval Culture
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Music Body and Desire in Medieval Culture
Author | : Bruce W. Holsinger |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0804740585 |
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Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.
Music Body and Desire in Medieval Culture
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Author | : Bruce W. Holsinger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : MUSIC |
ISBN | : 1503617149 |
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Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, from the musicality of sodomy in twelfth-century polyphony to Chaucer's representation of pedagogical violence in the Prioress's Tale, from early Christian writings on the music of the body to the plainchant and poetry of Hildegard of Bingen, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. The book reveals a sonorous landscape of flesh and bone, pleasure and pain, a medieval world in which erotic desire, sexual practice, torture, flagellation, and even death itself resonated with musical significance and meaning. In its insistence on music as an integral part of the material cultures of the Middle Ages, the book presents a revisionist account of an important aspect of premodern European civilization that will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.
Medieval Woman s Song
Author | : Anne L. Klinck,Ann Marie Rasmussen |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512803815 |
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The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A "woman's song" in this sense can be defined as a female-voice poem on the subject of love, typically characterized by simple language, sexual candor, and apparent artlessness. The chapters in Medieval Woman's Song bring together scholars in a range of disciplines to examine how both men and women contributed to this art form. Without eschewing consideration of authorship, the collection deliberately overturns the long-standing scholarly practice of treating as separate and distinct entities female-voice lyrics composed by men and those composed by women. What is at stake here is less the voice of women themselves than its cultural and generic construction.
The Sight of Sound
Author | : Richard Leppert |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1993-12-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520917170 |
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Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview is the northern European bourgeoisie, principally in England and the Low Countries, from 1600 to 1900. And his particular interest is the relation of music to the human body. He argues that musical practices, invariably linked to the body, are inseparable from the prevailing discourses of power, knowledge, identity, desire, and sexuality. With the support of 100 illustrations, Leppert addresses music and the production of racism, the hoarding of musical sound in a culture of scarcity, musical consumption and the policing of gender, the domestic piano and misogyny, music and male anxiety, and the social silencing of music. His unexpected yoking of musicology and art history, in particular his original insights into the relationships between music, visual representation, and the history of the body, make exciting reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in society and the arts.
The Premodern Condition
Author | : Bruce Holsinger |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226349749 |
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Bruce Holsinger identifies and explains an affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. His book contains original essays by Bataille and Bourdieu - translated into English - that testify to the strange persistence of medievalisms in French postwar writings.
Gothic Song
Author | : Margot Elsbeth Fassler |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1993-08-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521382912 |
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This is the first study of how a particular genre of liturgical texts and music, the Victorine sequences, were first written in great numbers during the twelfth-century.
Listening Subjects
Author | : David Schwarz |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0822319225 |
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On psychoanalysis and music appreciation
Contemplating Music
Author | : Joseph Kerman |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0674039564 |
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Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joesph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is tradtionally equated--but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. Kerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music towarda critical orientation, As examples, he presents a fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950's and Beethoven studies in the 1960's. He sketched the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Miltion Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster's songs into the cannons of black music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Comtemplating Music is fulled with wisdom and trenchant commmentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music.