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Title: Improvising Otherwise: A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Improvisation in Early Modern English Culture

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dc:title Improvising Otherwise: A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Improvisation in Early Modern English Culture
dc:creator Fatima Lahham
dc:rights ©2025 Fatima Lahham. CC BY 4.0
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dc:date 2025-04-28T12:15:16+00:00
dc:description This volume redefines how we approach early music and cultural histories, intertwining feminist, decolonial, and creative perspectives. Fatima Lahham delves into the improvisational practices of early modern England, situating them within a rich tapestry of musical sources, theological texts, travel narratives, and natural histories. Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s notion of the “feminist ear,” the book amplifies voices and histories often unheard, re-examining the cultural interplay between England and the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. 
 
This groundbreaking study bridges disciplines and engages with critical race studies to explore decolonial methodologies. Lahham challenges traditional historiographies, integrating improvisation studies and early modern creativity to transform our understanding of historical performance and inspire new practices today. Tracks from her album punctuate the text, fostering an innovative, multi-modal reading experience, while creative prompts invite readers to craft their own improvisations. 
 
At once scholarly and imaginative, this book expands the boundaries of historically informed performance and cultural studies. By mobilizing improvisation as a tool for understanding and re-imagining history, Imagining Otherwise offers a vital contribution to early music, feminist theory, and the study of England’s global engagements.
dc:subject Early Music;Feminist Ear;Decolonial Methodologies;Improvisation Studies;Ottoman-English Relations;Historical Performance Practices
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TOC Outline

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Audio Recordings
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Improvising the Human: Extemporary Practice and the Body in Early Modern England
  11. 2. Improvising Encounter: Travelogue Reading as World-Making
  12. Interlude: Bees on the Moon
  13. 3. Improvising Nature: Transposable Tongues of the Nightingale
  14. 4. Improvising Text: Historical Performance and a Decolonial Imaginary
  15. Epilogue
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the team
  19. This book need not end here…
  20. Tou may also be interested in:
  21. Back cover

Headings Outline

  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • List of Audio Recordings
  • Introduction
    • Between the Critical and the Historical: On Improvisation Studies
    • Tell Me a Story: On Decoloniality and Historical Narrative
    • Timeline
  • 1. Improvising the Human: Extemporary Practice and the Body in Early Modern England
    • Towards the ‘Extemporary’
    • Christopher Simpson’s Division Viol (1659)
    • A Musical Memory House
    • Print, Orality and Literacy
    • Extemporary Prayer
    • Reading the Body’s Prints
    • Law and Order: Policing the Extemporary Body
    • ‘Held by the Ears’: Conclusion
  • 2. Improvising Encounter: Travelogue Reading as World-Making
    • Improvising ‘Otherness’
    • Sensory Encounter in Henry Blount’s Voyage into the Levant (1636)
    • Silence and Absence in Henry Maundrell’s Journey to Jerusalem (1697)
    • Imagine: The Listening Cyclamen
    • Conclusion: Divisions in Aleppo
  • Interlude: Bees on the Moon
    • Colonial Pipes: A Song of Extemporary Queens
  • 3. Improvising Nature: Transposable Tongues of the Nightingale
    • The Extemporary Languages of Nature: On Bees and Birds
    • Sweet Divisions: Paradoxes of the Nightingale
    • A Musical Archive of Nightingales and Bees
    • Hearing the Bulbul Who Is Not Being Heard
    • Conclusion
  • 4. Improvising Text: Historical Performance and a Decolonial Imaginary
    • Between ‘the Law of Writ and the Liberty’
    • Thomas Mace and Roger North: On Hab-nab and the Extemporary Imagination
    • Text and Act: Dido, Improvising Queen
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
    • Primary Sources
      • Unpublished
      • Published
    • Secondary Sources
  • Index
  • Contents
    • Landmarks

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