Sounding off theorizing disability in music / edited by Neil Lerner, Joseph N. Straus.

Other author Lerner, Neil William, 1966-
Other author Straus, Joseph Nathan.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionxv, 295 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm.
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Contents Introduction: Theorizing disability in music / Neil Lerner, Joseph N. Straus -- PART I. NARRATING DISABILITY MUSICALLY -- Fever/Fragile/Fatigue: music, AIDS, present, and... / Paul Attinello -- Of bodies and narratives: musical representations of pain and illness in HBO's W;t / Maria Cizmic -- Female subjectivity, disability, and musical authorship in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Blue / Kelly Gross -- Dancing out of the dark: how music refutes disability stereotypes in Dancer in the Dark / Jennifer Iverson -- The horrors of one-handed pianism: music and disability in The beast with five fingers / Neil Lerner -- Stuttering in American popular song, 1890-1930 / Daniel Goldmark -- PART II. PERFORMING DISABILITY MUSICALLY -- Learning to hear autistically / Dave Headlam -- Glenn Gould, austistic savant / S. Timothy Maloney -- Using a music-theoretical approach to explore the impact of disability on musical development: a case study / Adam Ockelford -- Melisma as malady: Cavalli's Il Giasone (1649) and opera's earliest stuttering role / Andrew Oster -- The organ of the soul: voice, damage, and affect / Laurie Stras -- PART II. COMPOSING DISABILITY MUSICALLY -- Les chansons des fous: on the edge of madness with Alkan / L. Poundie Burstein -- Finding autism in the compositions of a 19th-century prodigy: reconsidering "Blind Tom" Wiggins / Stephanie Jensen-Moulton -- Beyond abnormality - dis/ability and music's metamorphic subjectivities / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert -- Mental illness and musical metaphor in the first movement of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique / Stephen Rodgers -- Inversonal balance and the "normal" body in the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern / Joesph N. Straus.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
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LCCN 2006007511
ISBN0415979064 (hb)
ISBN0415979072 (pb)
ISBN9780415979061 (hb)
ISBN9780415979078 (pb)
ISBN9780415979078

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