Materialities
Subtitle: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780199360642
Subjects: Songs, french; Songs, history and criticism
Description: 'Materialities' is a cultural history of song on the page. Concentrating on print in the early modern period, it approaches its topic via the French chanson, arguably the most broadly disseminated genre of polyphony in the sixteenth century. 'Materialities' is as much about how to study print culturally as it is about 'the music itself'. In this way it aligns with histories of the book by scholars such as Roger Chartier, adding a musical perspective to studies of print culture.