Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel

Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Jennifer Linhart Wood

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Winner of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's 2021 Bevington Award for Best New BookSounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period. Using the concept of the soundwave as a vibratory, uncanny, and transformative force, Jennifer Linhart Wood examines how sounds of foreign otherness are experienced and interpreted in cross-cultural interactions around the globe. Many of these same sounds are staged in the sonic laboratory of the English theater: rattles were shaken at Whitehall Palace and in Brazil; bells jingled in an English masque and in the New World; the Dallam organ resounded at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul and at King’s College, Cambridge; and the drum thundered across India and throughout London theaters. This book offers a new way to conceptualize intercultural contact by arguing that sounds of otherness enmesh bodies and objects in assemblages formed by sonic events, calibrating foreign otherness with thefamiliar self on the same frequency of vibration.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-14
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
Antal sidor373
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030122263

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Introduction: Soundings.- Part I: New World Symphony.- Rattling Soundscapes of Witch Drama and the New World.- Hell's Bells: Delight in Transatlantic Jinglings.- Interlude: Intercultural Remixes. Part II: Songs of the Orient.- An Organ’s Metamorphosis: Thomas Dallam’s Sonic Transformations in the Ottoman Empire.- "Drums Rumble Within": Embodied Experiences of Temples in the East and on the London Stage.- Interlude: A Tale of Two Toms: Dallam and Coryate Speaking in Oriental Tongues.- Part III: World Music: East Is West.- “Something Rich and Strange”: Global Listening and The Tempest.- Coda: "Songs from the Wood."

“This impressively wide-ranging study offers both a fresh interpretation of well-trodden texts and vibrant readings of lesser-known works. … This book is bursting with insights and, as if to illustrate how … helpful QR codes enable the reader-listener to hear the sounds under discussion. This important book offers a reassessment of how we understand the sounds of drama and the sounds of the travel narrative, begging us to reassess global sounds and their impact upon the body.” (Rachel Willie, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Vol. 174 (259), 2022)“In her exciting and innovative book, Wood theorizes the phenomenology of ‘sounding’ otherness both in early modern drama and travel encounters, providing an expansive model for interdisciplinary engagement across performance communities. Particularly powerful is her development of the notion of ‘sounding,’ with sections focused on specific kinds of instruments and how they would have vibrated, literallyand figuratively, in different contexts. … More expansively, Wood provides a model for how the field might move forward by bringing Indigenous Studies and Premodern Critical Race Studies into fruitful dialogue.” (MRDS, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, 2021)