Jenny Lind. Of Echoes and Traces

In September 1850, the celebrated soprano Jenny Lind, better known as the Swedish Nightingale, arrived in the United States for what would be her last major musical tour. Her wild success in the young nation was built upon an advertising campaign by Phineas Taylor Barnum that leveraged her talent an...

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Autores principales:	Anne Harley, Andrea Zittlau
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2021
Materias:	Lind (Jenny) Historically Informed Performance (HIP) nationhood America soprano birdsong History of Great Britain DA1-995
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:65d7273387d342b3af5f2dda792ef45e2021-12-02T10:08:57ZJenny Lind. Of Echoes and Traces0220-56102271-614910.4000/cve.10190https://doaj.org/article/65d7273387d342b3af5f2dda792ef45e2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/cve/10190https://doaj.org/toc/0220-5610https://doaj.org/toc/2271-6149In September 1850, the celebrated soprano Jenny Lind, better known as the Swedish Nightingale, arrived in the United States for what would be her last major musical tour. Her wild success in the young nation was built upon an advertising campaign by Phineas Taylor Barnum that leveraged her talent and various aspects of her identity. In this article, we consider the music written for Lind and how the sound she produced impacted her audiences, as well as those who did not even hear her. It is not an attempt to recreate Lind’s voice but to mark its absence by ‘audiolizing’ the genres it produced. We describe the tension between the written sheet music found in the archives and the corresponding performances by Lind and her imitators, as described in the press. Lind’s voice communicated to American society in several registers simultaneously: her vocal performance is variously described as a model for the voice of the masses, a respondent in sing-along sessions with audiences in the street, and also as an indescribable vehicle for spiritual transcendence. We will trace the correspondence of these identities and in so doing, hope to amplify the popular soundscapes of the mid-nineteenth century America.Anne HarleyAndrea ZittlauPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéearticleLind (Jenny)Historically Informed Performance (HIP)nationhoodAmericasopranobirdsongHistory of Great BritainDA1-995ENFRCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, Vol 94 (2021)
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description	In September 1850, the celebrated soprano Jenny Lind, better known as the Swedish Nightingale, arrived in the United States for what would be her last major musical tour. Her wild success in the young nation was built upon an advertising campaign by Phineas Taylor Barnum that leveraged her talent and various aspects of her identity. In this article, we consider the music written for Lind and how the sound she produced impacted her audiences, as well as those who did not even hear her. It is not an attempt to recreate Lind’s voice but to mark its absence by ‘audiolizing’ the genres it produced. We describe the tension between the written sheet music found in the archives and the corresponding performances by Lind and her imitators, as described in the press. Lind’s voice communicated to American society in several registers simultaneously: her vocal performance is variously described as a model for the voice of the masses, a respondent in sing-along sessions with audiences in the street, and also as an indescribable vehicle for spiritual transcendence. We will trace the correspondence of these identities and in so doing, hope to amplify the popular soundscapes of the mid-nineteenth century America.
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Jenny Lind. Of Echoes and Traces

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