Mary Caton Lingold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1123284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Caton Lingold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Caton |
| FAMILY NAME | Lingold |
| SIGNATURE | LINGOLD M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hearing “African” and “European” music in the Atlantic world
In this essay, the authors explore how in the context of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world the terms “African music” and “European music” were in the process of being developed and understood as discrete categories. Through two extended case studies – a musical encounter between a lutenist and Richard Ligon in Cape Verde, 1647, and a 1770s manuscript, the “Jamaican Airs,” that describes Black musical practices in Jamaica – th…
The Musical Passage project. Interview with Mary Caton Lingold
This interview discusses the development of the Musical Passage project with Mary Caton Lingold, Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she specializes in music and literature, sound studies, and digital humanities. In 2016, she co-created the website Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica with historian Laurent Dubois and composer David K. Garner to raise awareness of three musical compositions played by ens…
The Digital Black Atlantic
This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diasporaâ s rangeâ from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbeanâ while its essayists span academic fieldsâ from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
Siemerling’s book has the gravitas of a textbook, Madera’s the precision of a poem. Together they announce a new era for literary studies of the African diaspora, one which borrows from the capaciousness of Atlantic and hemispheric geographies while embarking on a pointed return to the specificities of place and nation. Madera offers a theory of the geographic imaginary, teaching us to interpret the worlds authored and inhabited by African Americ…
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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
Siemerling’s book has the gravitas of a textbook, Madera’s the precision of a poem. Together they announce a new era for literary studies of the African diaspora, one which borrows from the capaciousness of Atlantic and hemispheric geographies while embarking on a pointed return to the specificities of place and nation. Madera offers a theory of the geographic imaginary, teaching us to interpret the worlds authored and inhabited by African Americ…
The Digital Black Atlantic
This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diasporaâ s rangeâ from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbeanâ while its essayists span academic fieldsâ from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies
The Musical Passage project. Interview with Mary Caton Lingold
This interview discusses the development of the Musical Passage project with Mary Caton Lingold, Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she specializes in music and literature, sound studies, and digital humanities. In 2016, she co-created the website Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica with historian Laurent Dubois and composer David K. Garner to raise awareness of three musical compositions played by ens…
Hearing “African” and “European” music in the Atlantic world
In this essay, the authors explore how in the context of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world the terms “African music” and “European music” were in the process of being developed and understood as discrete categories. Through two extended case studies – a musical encounter between a lutenist and Richard Ligon in Cape Verde, 1647, and a 1770s manuscript, the “Jamaican Airs,” that describes Black musical practices in Jamaica – th…
Art (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Atlantic World (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Diaspora (1 work) · Digital Games and Media (1 work)