{"product_id":"fantasies-of-music-in-nostalgic-medievalism-9781526173959","title":"Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the revival, performance and invention of medieval music. In this enterprise modern fantasies of the Middle Ages have exercised great influence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eF\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism\u003c\/i\u003e shows how music, medievalism and nostalgia have been woven together in the fantasies of writers and readers, musicians, musicologists, directors and listeners, film-makers and film-goers. This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval – musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception – have worked together to produce and sustain, for some, the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Music, nostalgia and the   medieval\u003cbr\u003e   1 More real than reality: nostalgia   for the medieval in high fantasy fiction\u003cbr\u003e   2 ‘Yearning for the sweet   beckoning sound’: Musical longings and the unsayable in medievalist fantasy   fiction\u003cbr\u003e   3 The lost world inside a song: from the book to the   record\u003cbr\u003e   4 Exotic sexualities: the   countertenor voice in the late twentieth-century medieval music revival\u003cbr\u003e5 The call of the mother: music   for myth and fantasy in two Arthurian films\u003cbr\u003eAftermath\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041041973591,"sku":"9781526173959","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526173959.jpg?v=1750948714","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fantasies-of-music-in-nostalgic-medievalism-9781526173959","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}