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Song beyond the nation : translation, transnationalism, performance / edited by Philip Ross Bullock and Laura Tunbridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 236.
- British Academy scholarship online.
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 236
- British Academy scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- H<U+00cc>Đa<U+00cc><U+0084>fiz<U+00cc>Đ, active 14th century--Adaptations.
- H<U+00cc>Đa<U+00cc><U+0084>fiz<U+00cc>Đ.
- Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856--Adaptations.
- Heine, Heinrich.
- Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896--Adaptations.
- Verlaine, Paul.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Adaptations.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Songs--History and criticism.
- Songs.
- Music and transnationalism.
- Nationalism in music.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : illustrations (black and white), music.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This publication challenges that assumption by exploring the ways in which song crosses national borders. Whether by incorporating foreign canons of poetry alongside native ones, or conveying literature across linguistic borders through acts of performance, song functions as a means of translation.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "L'invitation au voyage" / Philip Ross Bullock and Laura Tunbridge
- Part I, Hafiz. Hafiz between nations : song setting by Daumer/Brahms and Peacock/Beamish / Natasha Loges. Szymanowski, a Hafiz "Grablied", and the "translation" of Nietzsche / Stephen Downes. The German roots of Russian Orientalism : Hafiz's poetry in early-20th-century Russian song / Philip Ross Bullock
- Part II, Heine. Traces of tourism and transnationalism in Liszt's Heine settings / Suzannah Clark. Performance matters in Heine : the case of Pauline Viardot's "Das ist ein schlechtes Wetter" / Benjamin Binder. "Once again ... speaking of" : Heine, in song / Laura Tunbridge
- Part III, Verlaine. Why song in Verlaine's verse is always already beyond the nation / Peter Dayan. French impressions : the transnational afterlives of Verlaine's "La lune blanche" in song / David Evans. Paul Verlaine in parallel : Loeffler, Fauré, Debussy / Carlo Caballero. Song just beyond the nation, or Debussy via Verlaine / Helen Abbott
- Part IV, Whitman. Johanna Müller-Hermann's Lied der Erinnerung : Austria, America, and beyond / Jennifer Ronyak. The émigré Walt Whitman : songs of mourning, 1943-1948 / Lawrence Kramer. A song, the sea, and a listening boy : Whitman, Swinburne, Delius / Elizabeth Helsinger. Whitman and Stevenson : singing the nation from Scotland to Sāmoa via Ohio and Hawaiʻi / Emma Sutton
- Afterword / Terence Cave.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80596-038-5
- 1-80596-067-9
- 0-19-195385-7
- OCLC:
- 1269095675
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