03564nam 2200613 450 991079573880332120240119204921.090-485-4455-610.1515/9789048544554(MiAaPQ)EBC7008851(Au-PeEL)EBL7008851(CKB)23231027900041EBL7008851(AU-PeEL)EBL7008851(OCoLC)1328134217(MdBmJHUP)musev2_101200(DE-B1597)626003(DE-B1597)9789048544554(EXLCZ)992323102790004120230627d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaritime musicians and performers on early modern English voyages the lives of the seafaring middle class /James SethAmsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (214 pages)Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 Series ;Volume 5Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Seth, James Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,c2022 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexMaritime 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.Maritime humanities, 1400-1800 ;Volume 5.Military musicHistory and criticismOcean travelSocial aspectsMusiciansTravelSeafaring lifemaritime performance, Francis Drake, East India Company, Northwest Passage, Shakespeare.Military musicHistory and criticism.Ocean travelSocial aspects.MusiciansTravel.Seafaring life.781.599Seth James(Professor),1549296MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795738803321Maritime musicians and performers on early modern English voyages3807221UNINA