Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel

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Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive, New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800

ISBN: 3030122239
ISBN 13: 9783030122232
Autor: Wood, Jennifer Linhart
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxii, 373 S., 17 s/w Illustr., 10 farbige Illustr., 373 p. 27 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Sounds 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 Topkapi 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 the familiar self on the same frequency of vibration.

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Beschreibung

Winner of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's 2021 Bevington Award for Best New Book Sounds 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 Topkapi 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 the familiar self on the same frequency of vibration.

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Linhart Wood teaches at St. Mary's College of Maryland and works for Shakespeare Quarterly at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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