Singing Love
2019 ◽
pp. 107-124
This chapter explores the folk songs Arnaudin collected. It discusses them by drawing attention to two key features: firstly, to the bawdiness of the songs of the moorlands, and secondly, to the dominance of female singers. The chapter argues that women used the shared culture of singing about making love in order to criticize the constraints they felt on their bodily autonomy. Whether or not there had ever been a time of freer romantic relations, the chapter discusses how songs allowed women to complain about things they found painful in the present, such as gossip and a culture of shaming.
2020 ◽
Vol 1
(33(60))
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pp. 43-45
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2012 ◽
Vol 17
(4)
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pp. 207-216
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