Thursday 20 June 2024, 5pm
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Speaker: Elizabeth Hebbard, Assistant Professor, French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington
Vernacular lyric in the age of the troubadours represents the union of literate and non-literate knowledge: poetry and music. Literate communities are inherently more visible, established as they are in this tradition through allusion and citation, invocations of lyric predecessors and contemporary performers, and through the use of code names. Given that troubadours are defined by their poetic language rather than their native one, even the choice to compose in Occitan signals a desire and intent to participate in the troubadour community. But melodies, too, are a form of knowledge. How can we recover their meanings and the ways that music also creates, shapes, and extends the troubadour community? This paper, from my current book project, seeks to understand troubadour song in performance, particularly beyond the professional sphere, and to grasp the mutual influence of song on communities and communities on song.
Poetry in the Medieval World Network
