TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seth,James
TI  - Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class 
T2  - Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800
SN  - 9789048544554
U1  - 910.4/5 23//eng/20220613eng
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Entertainers
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - England
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Musicians
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - International Relations
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - maritime performance, Francis Drake, East India Company, Northwest Passage, Shakespeare
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: A Tale of Two Trumpeters --; Part One. The Players --; 1. Naval Musicians --; 2. Civilian Performers, Professional and Amateur --; Part Two. The Performances --; 3. Signalling and Communicating --; 4. Courtly Rituals and Casual Entertainments --; 5. Diplomacy and Trade --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion. Often described reductively in voyaging accounts as having one function, in fact maritime performers served many communicative tasks. Their lives were not only complex, but often contradictory. Though not high-ranking officers, neither were they lower-ranking mariners or sailors. They were influenced by a range of competing cultural practices, having spent time playing on both land and sea, and their roles required them to mediate parties using music, dance, and theatre as powerful forms of nonverbal communication. Their performances transcended and breached boundaries of language, rank, race, religion, and nationality, thereby upsetting conventional practices, improving shipboard and international relations, and ensuring the success of their voyages
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544554?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048544554
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048544554/original
ER  -