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The courtesan's arts: cross-cultural perspectives
Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon-
Frontmatter
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List of Figures (page xv)
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List of Music Examples (page xix)
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A Note about Languages (page xxi)
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Contributors (page xxiii)
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Introduction (Bonnie Gordon and Martha Feldman, page 3)
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PART ONE Spectacle and Performance
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1. Making a Spectacle of Her(self): The Greek Courtesan and the Art of the Present (James Davidson, page 29)
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2. Cutting a Good Figure: The Fashions of Venetian Courtesans in the Illustrated Albums of Early Modern Travelers (Margaret F. Rosenthal, page 52)
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3. "Notes of Flesh" and the Courtesan's Song in Seventeenth-Century China (Judith T. Zeitlin, page 75)
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PART TWO A Case Study: The Courtesan's Voice in Early Modern Italy
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Introduction (Martha Feldman, page 103)
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4. The Courtesan's Voice: Pertrarchan Lovers, Pop Philosophy, and Oral Traditions (Martha Feldman, page 105)
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5. On Hearing the Courtesan in a Gift of Song: The Venetian Case of Gaspara Stampa (Dawn De Rycke, page 124)
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6. On Locating the Courtesan in Italian Lyric: Distance and the Madrigal Texts of Constanzo Festa (Justin Flosi, page 133)
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7. On Music Fit for a Courtesan: Representations of the Courtesan and Her Music in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Drew Edward Davies, page 144)
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PART THREE Power, Gender, and the Body
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8. Royalty's Courtesans and God's Mortal Wives: Keepers of Culture in Precolonial India (Doris M. Srinivasan, page 161)
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9. The Courtesan's Singing Body as Cultural Capital in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Bonnie Gordon, page 182)
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10. Defaming the Courtesan: Satire and Invective in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Courtney Quaintance, page 199)
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11. The Masculine Arts of the Ancient Greek Courtesan: Male Fantasy or Female Self-representation? (Christopher A. Faraone, page 209)
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PART FOUR Excursus: Geisha Dialogues
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12. The City Geisha and Their Role in Modern Japan: Anomaly or Artistes? (Lesley Downer, page 223)
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13. In the Service of the Nation: Geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country (Miho Matsugu, page 243)
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PART FIVE Fantasies of the Courtesan
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14. Going to the Courtesans: Transit to the Pleasure District of Edo Japan (Timon Screech, page 255)
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15. Who's Afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, Fear, and Imagining the Arts of the Renaissance Courtesan (Guido Ruggiero, page 280)
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PART SIX Courtesans in the Postcolony
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16. The Twentieth-Century "Disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the Rise of Korea's Modern Sex-and-Entertainment Industry (Joshua D. Pilzer, page 295)
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17. Female Agency and Patrilineal Constraints: Situating Courtesans in Twentieth-Century India (Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, page 312)
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18. Tawa'if, Tourism, and Tales: The Problematics of Twenty-First-Century Musical Patronage for North India's Courtesans (Amelia Maciszewski, page 332)
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Appendix: CD Notes and Texts (page 353)
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Selected Bibliography (page 369)
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Index (page 381)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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MAL | 88.4 (Nov. 2007): 650-652 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/30162904 |
SCJ | 38.4 (Winter 2007): 1180-1181 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20478712 |
JAMS | 61.3 (Fall 2008): 633-645 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jm.2008.61.3.633 |
ASM | 40.2 (Summer/Fall 2009): 143-145 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25652434 |
RQ | 59.4 (Winter 2006): 1258-1259 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1353/ren.2008.0473 |
WM | 11 (2007): 106-111 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/women_and_music/v011/11.1coller.html |
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Published: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195170290 (paper)
- 9780199775088 (ebook)
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