- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Rachel May Golden
- Published:
- 2020
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Troubadour song has been explored as an expression of courtly love and early vernacular song creation, even mythologized as a brief flowering of a romanticized Occitanian golden age. However, troubadour songs also importantly act as expressions of place and provide indices of contemporaneous regional communities and identities. Contemporary with the Second Crusade, the troubadour songs <italic>Pax in nomine Domini</italic> by Marcabru and <italic>Lanqan li jorn</italic> by Jaufre Rudel employ circularity, dialectic, and movement as ways of expressing place and creating a sense of near versus far. These songs should not be understood as only fixed texts; rather in sounding, transmission, and the enacting of motion they move through new environments and assume new agency as they travel. Troubadour songs of the Second Crusade thus transcend the role of fixed musical object to mediate between the position of composer-poet, the voice of the performer, and the reception of distant listeners.
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- What is "Locality, Distance, and Troubadour Song in the Second Crusade" about?
- Troubadour song has been explored as an expression of courtly love and early vernacular song creation, even mythologized as a brief flowering of a romanticized Occitanian golden age.
- Who wrote "Locality, Distance, and Troubadour Song in the Second Crusade"?
- Rachel May Golden