Acoustemologies in Contact

Notes on Contributors		vii
Introduction		1
SECTION I: Colonial Contact
1.	Listening as an Innu-French Contact Zone in the Jesuit Relations Olivia Bloechl	13
2.	Native Song and Dance Affect in Seventeenth-Century Christian Festivals in New Spain Ireri E. Chávez Bárcenas	37
3.	Performance in the Periphery: Colonial Encounters and Entertainments Patricia Akhimie	65

SECTION II: Contact and Captivity
4.	‘Hideous Acclamations’: Captive Colonists, Forced Singing, and the Incorporation Imperatives of Mohawk Listeners Glenda Goodman	83
5.	Black Atlantic Acoustemologies and the Maritime Archive Danielle Skeehan	107
6.	Little Black Giovanni’s Dream: Black Authorship and the ‘Turks, and Dwarves, the Bad Christians’ of the Medici Court Emily Wilbourne	135

SECTION III: Textual Contact
7.	A Global Phonographic Revolution: Trans-Eurasian Resonances of Writing in Early Modern France and China Zhuqing (Lester) S. Hu	167

SECTION IV: Mediterranean Contact
8.	‘La stiava dolente in suono di canto’: War, Slavery, and Difference in a Medici Court Entertainment Suzanne G. Cusick	201
9.	‘Now Despised, a Servant, Abandoned’: Wounded Italy, the Moresca, and the Performance of Alterity Nina Treadwell	239
10.	‘Non basta il suono, e la voce’: Listening for Tasso’s Clorinda Jane Tylus	265
Bibliography		289
List of illustrations		323
Index		327

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