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Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class

Hardcover

Series: Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 9463725415
ISBN13: 9789463725415
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 7 2022
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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