Seth, J: Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern E

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6372-541-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion. Often described reductively in voyaging accounts as having one function, in fact maritime performers served many communicative tasks. Their lives were not only complex, but often contradictory. Though not high-ranking officers, neither were they lower-ranking mariners or sailors. They were influenced by a range of competing cultural practices, having spent time playing on both land and sea, and their roles required them to mediate parties using music, dance, and theatre as powerful forms of nonverbal communication. Their performances transcended and breached boundaries of language, rank, race, religion, and nationality, thereby upsetting conventional practices, improving shipboard and international relations, and ensuring the success of their voyages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seth, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Tale of Two Trumpeters

Part One The Players
1. Naval Musicians
2. Civilian Performers, Professional and Amateur

Part Two The Performances
3. Signalling and Communicating
4. Courtly Rituals and Casual Entertainments
5. Diplomacy and Trade

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Seth, James
James Seth is an Assistant Professor of English at Central Washington University. He teaches and researches Shakespeare, early modern drama, maritime literature, and early English voyaging history.