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The courtesan's arts : cross-cultural perspectives / Martha Feldman & Bonnie Gordan.

Contributor(s): Feldman, Martha S, 1953- | Gordon, Bonnie, 1968-
Language: English Publisher: New York : Oxford Univ.Press, 2006.Description: xxvii, 396p. : ill., map, ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital : 4¿ in.).ISBN: 9780195170283
Contents:
1. Spectacle and performance. Making a spectacle of her(self): the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / James Davidson; Cutting a good figure: the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / Margaret F. Rosenthal; "Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / Judith T. Zeitlin. 2. A case study: the courtesan's voice in early modern Italy. The courtesan's voice: Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / Martha Feldman; On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song: the Venetian case of Gaspara Stampa / Dawn De Rycke; On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric: distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / Justin Flosi; On music fit for a courtesan: representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Drew Edward Davies. 3. Power, gender, and the body. Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives: keepers of culture in precolonial India / Doris M. Srinivasan; The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Bonnie Gordon; Defaming the courtesan: satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / Courtney Quaintance; The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan: male fantasy or female self-representation? / Christopher A. Faraone. 4. Excursus: geisha dialogues. The city geisha and their role in modern Japan: anomaly or artistes? / Lesley Downer; In the service of the nation: geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country / Miho Matsugu. 5. Fantasies of the courtesan. Going to the courtesans: transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech; Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana?: pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero. 6. Courtesans in the postcolony. The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. Pilzer; Female agency and patrilineal constraints: situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi; Tawa'if, tourism, and tales: the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage for North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski
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Audio Audio British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Audio C94 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available C94
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves HCP [FEL-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L79368
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1. Spectacle and performance. Making a spectacle of her(self): the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / James Davidson; Cutting a good figure: the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / Margaret F. Rosenthal; "Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / Judith T. Zeitlin. 2. A case study: the courtesan's voice in early modern Italy. The courtesan's voice: Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / Martha Feldman; On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song: the Venetian case of Gaspara Stampa / Dawn De Rycke; On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric: distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / Justin Flosi; On music fit for a courtesan: representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Drew Edward Davies. 3. Power, gender, and the body. Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives: keepers of culture in precolonial India / Doris M. Srinivasan; The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Bonnie Gordon; Defaming the courtesan: satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / Courtney Quaintance; The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan: male fantasy or female self-representation? / Christopher A. Faraone. 4. Excursus: geisha dialogues. The city geisha and their role in modern Japan: anomaly or artistes? / Lesley Downer; In the service of the nation: geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country / Miho Matsugu. 5. Fantasies of the courtesan. Going to the courtesans: transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech; Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana?: pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero. 6. Courtesans in the postcolony. The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. Pilzer; Female agency and patrilineal constraints: situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi; Tawa'if, tourism, and tales: the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage for North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski