Sounding otherness in early modern drama and travel : uncanny vibrations in the English archive /
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 arou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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| Series: | New transculturalisms, 1400-1800.
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| Summary: | 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. Rrattles 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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| Physical Description: | xxii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030122239 9783030122232 |