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Title Medieval woman's song : cross-cultural approaches / edited by Anne L. Klinck and Ann Marie Rasmussen
Published Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages)
Series The Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Sappho and her daughters / Anne L. Klinck -- Ides ... geomrode giddum / Pat Belanoff -- Women's performance of the lyric before 1500 / Susan Boynton -- Ca no soe joglaresa / Judith R. Cohen -- Feminine voices in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amigo / Esther Corral -- Sewing like a girl / E. Jane Burns -- Fictions of the female voice / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- Conception of female roles in the woman's song of Reinmar and the Contessa de Dia / Ingrid Kasten -- Reason and the female voice in Walther von der Vogelweide's poetry / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Ventriloquisms / Judith M. Bennett
Summary The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A "woman's song" in this sense can be defined as a female-voice poem on the subject of love, typically characterized by simple language, sexual candor, and apparent artlessness. The chapters in Medieval Woman's Song bring together scholars in a range of disciplines to examine how both men and women contributed to this art form. Without eschewing consideration of authorship, the collection deliberately overturns the long-standing scholarly practice of treating as separate and distinct entities female-voice lyrics composed by men and those composed by women. What is at stake here is less the voice of women themselves than its cultural and generic construction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 64-65), and index
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Subject Women singers.
Women musicians.
Vocal music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
Vocal music -- 15th century -- History and criticism
Music -- Social aspects.
singers.
musicians.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Music -- Social aspects
Vocal music
Women musicians
Women singers
Frauenlied
Aufsatzsammlung
Frauenlyrik
Liederen.
Vrouwen.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Klinck, Anne L., 1943-
Rasmussen, Ann Marie
ISBN 9781512803815
1512803812