Fifteenth-century Dance and Music: Treatises and music


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Vol. 1: Treatises and music ; vol. 2: choreographic descriptions with concordances of variants.













Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance


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Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados is an exploration of two fandango dances, recording the circulations of people, imagery, music, and dance across what were once the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. Although these dance-musics seem to be mirror images, the unbreachable space between them reflects the political fault-lines along which nineteenth-century musical populism and folkloric nationalism extend into present-day debates about globalization, immigration, neoliberalism, and neofascism. If malagueñas are a fantastic incarnation of Spanishness, caught like a fly in amber by their anachronistic references to a fraught imperial past, noisy and raucous zapateado dances cut toward the future. Inherently marked by European conventions of zapatos (shoes), zapateados are nonetheless shaped by Africanist and Native American footwork traditions. In these Afro-Indigenous mestizajes, not only are European aesthetic values reordered and resignified, but the Catholic catechism which indoctrinated the New World yields to alternate spiritual systems springing out of a culture of resistance to European domination.




Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music


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This collection addresses questions of gender and sexuality as they relate to music from the middle ages to the early seventeenth century. These essays present a body of scholarship that considers music as part of the history of sexuality, stimulating conversation within musicology as well as bringing music studies into dialogue with feminist, gender and queer theory. Also includes 20 musical examples.




Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music


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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




John Durang


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Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750


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An engaging overview of dance from the Medieval era through the Baroque




The Guitar in Stuart England


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The guitar is the most played instrument in the West. This is the first account of its rise in Stuart England.