{"id":30,"date":"2024-08-09T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/singafterme\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-03-27T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:35:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/singafterme\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"30\" class=\"elementor elementor-30\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-169cca82 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"169cca82\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-61d31a3f\" data-id=\"61d31a3f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-288ff708 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"288ff708\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the Research<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08bf565 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"08bf565\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba32ca1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ba32ca1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fcb39d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fcb39d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Research Project<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fa9a1a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0fa9a1a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-606fc91 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"606fc91\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a17638 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4a17638\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><i>&#8216;Sing you now after me\u2019: Catch-Singing and Community in Britain, c.1550-1650<\/i>\u00a0is led by\u00a0Dr Katherine Butler and funded by the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship scheme. This project aims to fundamentally reshape our understanding of popular, communal, polyphonic singing in\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">early modern society through the first comprehensive, book-length study of rounds and catches in Britain\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">c.1550-1650, and a public engagement programme of participatory catch-singing workshops (see &#8216;<a style=\"transition-property: all;\" href=\"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/singafterme\/?page_id=39\">Singing<\/a>&#8216; above).<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Rounds, catches, and canons are simple songs where the same melody is\u00a0<\/span>sung starting at different times,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">thereby creating harmony (e.g., songs like<span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\u00a0London\u2019s Burning, Frere Jacques, Campfire&#8217;s Burning &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLJmgO8wpV6f0eifmnVSSapxEldI6ETIrq&amp;feature=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to some here<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">). The different terms were used interchangeably in this period,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">though canons tended to be more serious and catches lighter. Easily learnt by ear and accessible to a wide.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">Easily learnt by ear and accessible to a wide\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">spectrum of society, rounds\/catches were ubiquitous, encompassing the pastoral, urban or maritime; bawdy,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">alcoholic, and religious; theatrical and domestic; work and play. Although largely shared orally, they also began\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">to be printed and copied in this period. Despite their ubiquity in early modern society, these songs are\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">peripheral in modern scholarship: musicologists have focused on more complex polyphonic song (e.g.,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">madrigals, lute ayres, consort songs), while historians and literary scholars on monophonic ballads\/psalms.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">Catches, however, straddle art and popular musics, oral and literate traditions, challenging preconceptions of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">part-singing as an exclusively elite practice.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">This lack of attention to catch-singing is a significant blind spot in our understanding of everyday, recreational\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">music-making and its significance for community building in early modern Britain. Predominantly merry in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">disposition, catches spotlight elements of musical life, that are not commonly the primary subject of study, but\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">are crucial to the pleasures of social music-making: the role of singing in drinking culture , the workings of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">musical humour, songs as forms of play, and singing as an act of forging communal identities. Moreover, catch-singing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">highlights understudied singing communities including tradesmen, itinerant workers, soldiers, and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">sailors. Rounds\/catches are distinct in their brevity and tight construction, which both controls the interplay of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">voices and bodies thereby regulating social interactions and provides a framework in which conventions can be\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">played with. They are distinctively self-reflective, articulating the experiences and values of their singers and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">dictating communal physical and musical acts in their lyrics.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Straddling history, musicology, and literature, this study is a ground-breaking reappraisal of singing in harmony\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">as a practice inextricably woven through early modern everyday life. Its objectives are to:<\/span><\/p><ol style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">unpack the diversity of catch-singing communities and their intersecting characteristics of age, gender, class,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">and trades \u2013 demonstrating catch-singing\u2019s widespread practice and significance. In particular this survey will\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">challenge the common assumption that catch-singing was an exclusively male activity in this period;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">analyse the circulation of songs, understanding the co-dependency of oral and literate transmission, and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">tracing processes of adaptation and contrafacta (i.e., new texts to old tunes);<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">situate catch-singing within wider song culture: investigating quotations (street cries, popular tunes) and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">intersections with other canonic genres, ballads, and stage songs;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0assess the functions of these songs in life and on stage: as games, jests, and rituals combining singing with\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">drinking, movement, and other noise-making;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">demonstrate how singing together in harmony created communities of work, drinking, good fellowship,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">prayer, and learning \u2013 its impact extending beyond the merely musical;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">trace changes in the nature, functions, and social status of catch-singing across the period, as influenced by\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">increasing musical literacy among the upper classes, the development of tavern culture, expansion of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">printed music market, and impacts of the civil war\/interregnum.<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9b44b6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d9b44b6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8362a9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c8362a9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3af35c8 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"3af35c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3cca57 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b3cca57\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Me<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a4c02b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4a4c02b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55c4ff1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"55c4ff1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/singafterme\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Butler_K_004-qux9d40bs9v177xc9hwybtkw93ys5uim31ut8j9af4.jpg\" title=\"Butler_K_004\" alt=\"A headshot of Katherine Butler, who has long, straight brown hair, blue eye, wear glasses. She is wearing a teal cardigan over a teal and grey striped shirt.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc75301 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cc75301\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6241c78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6241c78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><h3>Dr Katherine Butler<span><\/span><\/h3><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9598cea elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9598cea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Katherine Butler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University (in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for 2024\/25.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">Katherine&#8217;s research focuses on the musical culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, spanning topics including court music, civic pageantry, ballads and popular song, death songs and elegies, music philosophy, mythology, early modern science and medicine, manuscript miscellanies, and music printing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">She is the author of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/9781783274031\/music-in-elizabethan-court-politics\/#:~:text=Music%20and%20musical%20entertainments%20are,was%20indispensable%20to%20the%20state.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">Music in Elizabethan Court Politics<\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\"> (Boydell and Brewer, 2015) and the co-editor of\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/9781783273713\/music-myth-and-story-in-medieval-and-early-modern-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music, Myth, and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">(2019),\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/9781783276899\/the-heroic-in-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">The Heroic and Music<\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">\u00a0(2022), and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/doi\/book\/10.3828\/9781638040859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century<\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5);\">\u00a0(2023).<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span 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