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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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The article is a discussion on tempo markings and performance notes in the first volume of the piano études by György Ligeti. It draws attention to certain differences between the manuscript, the preliminary facsimile editions and the final edition by ...
Elisa Järvi
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Quiet is beautiful: The poetics of soft sound today
This article examines the use of soft sound with reference to late-twentieth and twenty-first century music. My hypothesis is that softness offers a particular type of poetics in contemporary music, thus inviting examination of such poetics in close ...
Mieko Kanno
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Possible Gender Differences in Classical Music, Flamenco and Fado. [PDF]
Garcia-Falgueras A.
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Retracted: Learning Chinese Classical Music with the Aid of Soundscape by Using Intelligent Network. [PDF]
Intelligence And Neuroscience C.
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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The critic's voice: On the role and function of criticism of classical music recordings. [PDF]
Alessandri E +2 more
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