Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African-American Blues Song

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M. McGeachy

Lonesome Words

The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African-American Blues Song

M. McGeachy

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
24 March 2009

Early music (up to c 1000 CE); 20th century & contemporary classical music; Literary studies: poetry & poets

Series: The New Middle Ages

The tenth-century Old English lament and twentieth-century blues song each speak the language of a distinct poetic tradition, yet the voices are remarkably similar in their emotive expression of loneliness. This innovative study juxtaposes the texts of each corpus to explore the features that characterize their vocal poetics

By: M. McGeachy
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Edition: 2009 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 375g
ISBN: 9781403962911
ISBN 10: 140396291X
Series: The New Middle Ages
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 24 March 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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MARGARET G. MCGEACHY is Assistant Professor of English at D'Youville College in New York, USA.

Reviews for Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African-American Blues Song

Lonesome Words makes a strong contribution to comparative poetics in the typological rather than the genetic sense. McGeachy successfully explores a hierarchy of comparisons from verbal formulae to social and historical contexts for production in the Old English lament and the African-American blues song. In both corpora she examines themes of wandering, of exile and imprisonment, and of a lost but happier past, and the conclusions she draws from these comparisons are salient and comprehensive. --John Lewis, Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University