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The courtesan's arts: cross-cultural perspectives

Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures (page xv)
  • List of Music Examples (page xix)
  • A Note about Languages (page xxi)
  • Contributors (page xxiii)
  • Introduction (Bonnie Gordon and Martha Feldman, page 3)
  • PART ONE Spectacle and Performance
    • 1. Making a Spectacle of Her(self): The Greek Courtesan and the Art of the Present (James Davidson, page 29)
    • 2. Cutting a Good Figure: The Fashions of Venetian Courtesans in the Illustrated Albums of Early Modern Travelers (Margaret F. Rosenthal, page 52)
    • 3. "Notes of Flesh" and the Courtesan's Song in Seventeenth-Century China (Judith T. Zeitlin, page 75)
  • PART TWO A Case Study: The Courtesan's Voice in Early Modern Italy
    • Introduction (Martha Feldman, page 103)
    • 4. The Courtesan's Voice: Pertrarchan Lovers, Pop Philosophy, and Oral Traditions (Martha Feldman, page 105)
    • 5. On Hearing the Courtesan in a Gift of Song: The Venetian Case of Gaspara Stampa (Dawn De Rycke, page 124)
    • 6. On Locating the Courtesan in Italian Lyric: Distance and the Madrigal Texts of Constanzo Festa (Justin Flosi, page 133)
    • 7. On Music Fit for a Courtesan: Representations of the Courtesan and Her Music in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Drew Edward Davies, page 144)
  • PART THREE Power, Gender, and the Body
    • 8. Royalty's Courtesans and God's Mortal Wives: Keepers of Culture in Precolonial India (Doris M. Srinivasan, page 161)
    • 9. The Courtesan's Singing Body as Cultural Capital in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Bonnie Gordon, page 182)
    • 10. Defaming the Courtesan: Satire and Invective in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Courtney Quaintance, page 199)
    • 11. The Masculine Arts of the Ancient Greek Courtesan: Male Fantasy or Female Self-representation? (Christopher A. Faraone, page 209)
  • PART FOUR Excursus: Geisha Dialogues
    • 12. The City Geisha and Their Role in Modern Japan: Anomaly or Artistes? (Lesley Downer, page 223)
    • 13. In the Service of the Nation: Geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country (Miho Matsugu, page 243)
  • PART FIVE Fantasies of the Courtesan
    • 14. Going to the Courtesans: Transit to the Pleasure District of Edo Japan (Timon Screech, page 255)
    • 15. Who's Afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, Fear, and Imagining the Arts of the Renaissance Courtesan (Guido Ruggiero, page 280)
  • PART SIX Courtesans in the Postcolony
    • 16. The Twentieth-Century "Disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the Rise of Korea's Modern Sex-and-Entertainment Industry (Joshua D. Pilzer, page 295)
    • 17. Female Agency and Patrilineal Constraints: Situating Courtesans in Twentieth-Century India (Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, page 312)
    • 18. Tawa'if, Tourism, and Tales: The Problematics of Twenty-First-Century Musical Patronage for North India's Courtesans (Amelia Maciszewski, page 332)
  • Appendix: CD Notes and Texts (page 353)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 369)
  • Index (page 381)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
ISBN(s)
  • 9780195170290 (paper)
  • 9780199775088 (ebook)
  • 9780195170283 (hardcover)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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