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Angela Carter and Folk Music

'Invisible Music', Prose and the Art of Canorography

Dr Polly Paulusma (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29628-2 (ISBN)

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From her unique standpoint as singer-songwriter-scholar, Polly Paulusma examines the influences of Carter’s 1960s folk singing, unknown until now, on her prose writing. Recent critical attention has focused on Carter’s relationship with folk/fairy tales, but this book uses a newly available archive containing Carter’s folk song notes, books, LPs and recordings to change the debate, proving Carter performed folk songs. Placing this archive alongside the album sleeve notes Carter wrote and her diaries and essays, it reimagines Carter’s prose as a vehicle for the singing voice, and reveals a writing style imbued with ‘songfulness’ informed by her singing praxis.

Reading Carter’s texts through songs she knew and sang, this book shows, from influences of rhythm, melodic shape, thematic focus, imagery, ‘voice’ and ‘breath’, how Carter steeped her writing with folk song’s features to produce ‘canorography’: song-infused prose. Concluding with a discussion of Carter’s profound influence on songwriters, focusing on the author's interview with Emily Portman, this book invites us to reimagine Carter’s prose as audial event, dissolving boundaries between prose and song, between text and reader, between word and sound, in an ever-renewing act of sympathetic resonance.

Polly Paulusma is an independent scholar and professional musician based in the UK. Please visit her website www.pollypaulusma.com to know more about her work.

Preface
1 Introduction
2 ‘A Singer’s Swagger’: Angela Carter, the Folk Singer
3 ‘Me and Not-Me’: Folk Song Praxis and the Gender Imaginary in Shadow Dance
4 ‘An Invented Distance’: Folk Songs, Sonic Geographies, and The Erl-King’s Greenwood
5 ‘Moving Through Time’: Folk Songs, Journeys and the Picaresque in ‘Reflections’ and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
6 ‘Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage’: Folk Songs, Avianthropes and the Canorographic Voice in ‘The Erl-King’ and Nights at the Circus
7 ‘A Continued Thread’: Angela Carter and the Folk Singer Emily Portman
8 Sympathetic Resonances
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
Zusatzinfo	28 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-29628-7 / 1350296287
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29628-2 / 9781350296282
Zustand	Neuware