Rachel Golden has produced a study that ranges over a wide variety of crusader song and successfully situates it in the rich cultural, social and political context of the Central Middle Ages. The book offers vivid insights into a body of song that illuminates the dynamics of a conflict between civilizations that occupied societies of the Mediterranean basin for half a millennium and strongly resonates in today's society.
Rachel May Golden is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Tennessee, where she heads the Musicology area. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, Musical Quarterly, and Opera Quarterly, among other publications. She has been an American Council of Learned of Societies Fellow and an NEH Summer Scholar.