{"title":"Songs at the Docks: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Musical Entanglements in Seventeenth-Century Marseille","authors":"Leendert Van der Miesen","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad068","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building on recent musicological research that emphasizes the mobility of songs, this article investigates Marseille as a site of cultural encounter and highlights the musical presence of enslaved galley rowers and translators in the city. It focuses on several descriptions of music-making in southern France by the French antiquarian Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and his efforts to find materials on Ottoman and Persian music for the music theorist Marin Mersenne. Utilizing the constant influx of goods and people into the city, Peiresc relied on mercantile networks to obtain transcriptions of songs and music theoretical texts, engaging various informers and translators from the eastern Mediterranean. Focusing on a transcription of a single song that has been lost, the article traces the song’s connections to cultures of collection, cultural translation, and transcription, with singing constituting a central site in which to negotiate and perform otherness.","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"54 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135775852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authors of articles in this Issue","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"7 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135664150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Tunes: Narratives of Nation in South African Music-Themed Postage Stamps (1961–2015)","authors":"MELISSA GERBER","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad061","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Postage stamps have in recent years been positioned as token purveyors of nation, with countries disseminating carefully curated ideas of national identity to their own citizens and international audiences. This article complements existing research by using South African music-themed postage stamps to read the changing narratives of the nation, or ‘music nationalism’ in philately. The article analyses music-themed postage stamps issued in South Africa between 1961 and 2015. It confirms that the representation of music nationalism in apartheid philately aligned with Afrikaner nationalist politics, with clear divides between ‘White’ and ‘Black’ genres. Post-apartheid music-themed stamps draw attention to forgotten music histories previously overshadowed by apartheid ideology while still engaging with musical threads of the apartheid past. Most significantly, the article illuminates the other forces at play behind what many accept to be a process solely steered and controlled by the state, revealing much about South Africa’s democracy.","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"17 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136158460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Music’s Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism</i>. Daniel Albright","authors":"James Davis","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad059","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Music’s Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism. Daniel Albright Get access Music’s Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism. By Daniel Albright, with a Foreword by Alexander Rehding. Pp. xiv + 298. ( University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2022. ISBN 978-0-226-79122-7, £45.) James Davis James Davis Bromley by Bow, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, gcad059, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad059 Published: 20 October 2023 Article history Received: 20 May 2023 Editorial decision: 22 September 2023 Accepted: 26 September 2023 Corrected and typeset: 20 October 2023 Published: 20 October 2023","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135618569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Luigi Cherubini: A Multifaceted Composer at the Turn of the 19th Century</i>. Massimiliano Sala","authors":"Michael Fend","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad060","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Luigi Cherubini: A Multifaceted Composer at the Turn of the 19th Century. Massimiliano Sala Get access Luigi Cherubini: A Multifaceted Composer at the Turn of the 19th Century. Ed. by Massimiliano Sala. Pp. x + 493. ( Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. ISBN 978-2-503-59100-1. €120.00.) Michael Fend Michael Fend King’s College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, gcad060, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad060 Published: 19 October 2023 Article history Editorial decision: 22 September 2023 Received: 22 September 2023 Accepted: 17 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 19 October 2023 Published: 19 October 2023","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135823114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II</i>. Katharine Ellis","authors":"Fanny Gribenski","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad067","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II. Katharine Ellis Get access French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II. By Katharine Ellis. Pp. 440. AMS Studies in Music. ( Oxford University Press, New York, 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-760016-0, £56.) Fanny Gribenski Fanny Gribenski New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, gcad067, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad067 Published: 19 October 2023 Article history Editorial decision: 02 October 2023 Received: 02 October 2023 Accepted: 05 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 19 October 2023 Published: 19 October 2023","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135728575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution</i>. Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden","authors":"Shaena B Weitz","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad066","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution. Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden Get access From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution. By Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden. Pp. 336. ( Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-751151-0, $74.) Shaena B Weitz Shaena B Weitz University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, gcad066, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad066 Published: 16 October 2023 Article history Editorial decision: 25 September 2023 Received: 25 September 2023 Accepted: 25 September 2023 Corrected and typeset: 16 October 2023 Published: 16 October 2023","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism</i> Adrian Daub","authors":"Philip Ross Bullock","doi":"10.1093/ml/gcad058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad058","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German NationalismAdrian Daub Get access What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism. By Adrian Daub. New Cultural History of Music. Pp. viii + 286. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-0-19-088550-2, £56.00.) Philip Ross Bullock Philip Ross Bullock Wadham College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, gcad058, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcad058 Published: 12 October 2023 Article history Editorial decision: 22 September 2023 Received: 22 September 2023 Accepted: 27 September 2023 Corrected and typeset: 12 October 2023 Published: 12 October 2023","PeriodicalId":44448,"journal":{"name":"MUSIC & LETTERS","volume":"40 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}