{"id":7031096,"date":"2026-08-07T00:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/emily-mcbrides-book-notes-music-playlist-for-her-novel-queen-mab-largehearted-boy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:55:27","slug":"emily-mcbrides-book-notes-music-playlist-for-her-novel-queen-mab-largehearted-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7031096","title":{"rendered":"Emily McBride\u2019s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Queen Mab \u2013 Largehearted Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/lhb-book-notes\/\">Book Notes<\/a> series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Previous contributors include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2014\/10\/book_notes_jesm.html\">Jesmyn Ward<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2015\/09\/book_notes_laur_27.html\">Lauren Groff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/08\/book_notes_bret.html\">Bret Easton Ellis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2017\/10\/book_notes_cele.html\">Celeste Ng<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2015\/03\/book_notes_tc_b.html\">T.C. Boyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/01\/book_notes_dana.html\">Dana Spiotta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2019\/02\/hanif_abdurraqi.html\">Hanif Abdurraqib<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2017\/07\/book_notes_andr_30.html\">Andrew Sean Greer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2014\/05\/book_notes_roxa_2.html\">Roxane Gay,<\/a> and many others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Emily McBride\u2019s novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374617821\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0FY5V6HMF\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\">Queen Mab<\/a> is a brilliant debut that marries folklore to postpartum depression<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The New Yorker wrote of the book:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe body horror of birth gives way to the fairy-tale horror of early motherhood, which McBride, a translator based in Barcelona, strews with literary Easter eggs from folktales and Victorian poetry . . . The result is an agile, unsettling novel about the unwinding of a mind, set in a world of women who view motherhood as a curious affectation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>In her own words, here is Emily McBride\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/lhb-book-notes\/\">Book Notes<\/a> music playlist for her debut novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374617821\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0FY5V6HMF\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\">Queen Mab<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Spooky lullabies and fairy tale songs from Queen Mab<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/queen-mab-a-novel-emily-mcbride\/38abb09300841136\"><em>Queen Mab<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Madeleine is a young mother who thinks her baby is not her baby, but a fairy changeling. The world seems full of menace and threat, especially at night, when she sits alone in the dark, feeding the endlessly hungry fairy child, and trying to sing it to sleep\u2014but the words come out cracked. \u201cI always liked the spooky lullabies best when you were a baby,\u201d her own mother says. \u201cThe ones with a bit of menace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some lullabies are written especially to sing to children, and others are just songs, sung low, sung slow. When the lyrics are dark, they hint at a world where a tired adult croons alone in the dead of night, and lets their own fears and anxieties roam over things they wouldn\u2019t admit to in the daylit hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the songs of forgotten babies, crab-monsters and unexpected violence that informed <em>Queen Mab<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Highland Fairy Lullaby, Robin Hall and Jimmy MacGregor<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Highland Fairy Lullaby\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4MZdVEye0YNIBpxoifF7mX?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This mournful Scottish tune is quoted outright in the novel. It\u2019s about a mother who puts her baby down in the mountains, and never finds her again. Any parent\u2019s nightmare. In the novel, hearing it feeds all of Madeleine\u2019s latent anxieties that she did something wrong, left a window open, wasn\u2019t paying enough attention. Was the baby really spirited away though, or is she just anxious about everything in the aftermath of birth?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dodo Ti Pitit Manman, Claudette Th\u00e9gat<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Dodo ti pitit manman\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/7gRzOuznwb716TqlEzlBhh?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lullabies from all over the world will often follow a formula of \u201cgo to sleep or the crocodile\/wolf\/eagle\/hag\/insert-monster-of-choice will come and get you.\u201d But for me, points go to this Haitian Creole take, where the bogeyman is in fact a crab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>V\u2019l\u00e0 l\u2019bon vent, Marie Lafor\u00eat<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: V'la l'bon vent\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/3DSgccKX3KMZngczkgZOTG?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point in the writing of <em>Queen Mab<\/em>, I became obsessed with finding a French-Canadian folk song that would sound like a fairytale, for the novel\u2019s final scene. I didn\u2019t go into the song or its lyrics in detail, but this voyageur song with roots in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century was in my mind. In it, the narrator laments that a greedy prince with a silver gun has shot and killed her pure white duck. In some versions, gold and jewels fall from the dead duck\u2019s beak. I loved the imagery of this song but also its flexibility\u2014it can be haunting and waiflike, folksy or choral, or played as a fiercely danceable fiddle piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B\u00edum B\u00edum Bambal\u00f3, Sigur R\u00f3s<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: B\u00edum b\u00edum bambal\u00f3\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4K8FIqPPkrYf8gR8oi3H80?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn\u2019t know this Icelandic melody until recently, and yet I\u2019ve always known it (by another name). It tells of a mother singing her baby to sleep in a snowstorm, while a face looks in through the window from the storm outside! Is it the face of a troll or an elf of Icelandic legend? Is it the winter itself that needs to be kept beyond the glass? Perhaps what\u2019s most frightening is that it isn\u2019t specified\u2026 because we never really know what the future will hold when we sing a baby to sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the menacing lyrics, the song shows the strange way folk culture reinvents itself. The tune is actually a traditional Irish melody, adapted by Peter Paul and Mary as \u201cGone the Rainbow\u201d in the 1960s, and only joined with the Icelandic text in 1970. Folk traditions are often more recent than we think, or the versions we know of them are. Fairytales as well as music have gone through this process, and <em>Queen Mab<\/em> fits this pattern too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Silver Dagger, Joan Baez<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Silver Dagger\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2hulWLdzjBexk2bxQpcUp7?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSilver Dagger\u201d is not a lullaby, it\u2019s more of a murder ballad, though no one dies. The two genres have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/many-lullabies-murder-ballads\">surprising overlap<\/a>. It\u2019s easy to imagine crooning this song on a dark night, because of its fairy-tale imagery (the father bears a literal chain of broken hearts). It also presents a strange inversion of the mother-child role. The narrator tells her lover not to come courting because <em>her mother<\/em> is lying by her side, holding a silver dagger and \u201cshe says that I can\u2019t be your bride.\u201d She concludes that she has decided \u201cto sleep alone all of my life.\u201d The mother here has taken her protective duties, and her lying next to the child in the night, to an extreme. Precluding romance, marriage\u2026and therefore any more babies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aunque es de noche, Rosal\u00eda<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Aunque Es De Noche\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/43MWnijE4yC3hZAjoRQ06N?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosal\u00eda exploded on the scene around the time I was doing much of my night-singing, and although I couldn\u2019t sing this at 4 am to save my life, the flamenco\/pop mashup is, appropriately, all about darkness and light. \u201cAlthough it is night,\u201d say the lyrics, based on a poem by Spanish mystic Juan de la Cruz, <em>although it is night<\/em>, there is meaning, there is faith, there is finally light.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Spooky Spooky Spooky, Casper Babypants<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Spooky Spooky Spooky\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/35fVfOAChwysw0dWXbPl9P?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These songs are all pretty intense. But then one day, the sleepless nights are passed, the baby is older, and those once-tired parents are with their kid listening to a guy called Casper <em>Babypants<\/em>. And he has a spooky song too, which is hilarious, gets stuck in everyone\u2019s head for weeks on end\u2014which my own adult sister with no kids added to her Spotify list. The night has departed, and comedy has returned to the world.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.substack.com\/\">For book &amp; music links, themed playlists, a wrap-up of Largehearted Boy feature posts, and more, check out Largehearted Boy\u2019s weekly newsletter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Emily McBride is a Canadian-born editor, writer, and translator living in Barcelona. Her work has been published in The Nation, The Rumpus, and The Stinging Fly. Queen Mab is her debut novel.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/support-largehearted-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider supporting the site to keep it strong.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. 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