Music, sensation, and sensuality / edited by Linda Phyllis Austern.

Other author Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2002.
Descriptionxii, 348 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCritical and cultural musicology ; v. 5
Critical and cultural musicology v. 5. ^A516482
Contents Descartes on musical training and the body / Kate van Orden -- Bemetzrider's dream: Diderot and the pathology of tonal sensibility in the Leçons de clavecin / Thomas Christensen -- "Little pearl teardrops": Schubert, Schumann, and the tremulous body of romantic song / Lawrence Kramer -- Untying the music/language knot / Elizabeth Tolbert -- Sensational sacrifices: feasting the senses in the Bolivian Andes / Henry Stobart -- Siren sensualities in physical theatre: Lloyd Newson's strange fish (1992) / Janet Adshead-Lansdale -- Heroism undone: The erotic manuscript parodies of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies en musique / Catherine Gordon-Seifert -- Processions for the dead, the senses, and ritual identity in colonial Mexico / Grayson Wagstaff -- Between life and death: The funeral and mourning rituals of the Southeastern Hungarian Vlach Roma / Irén Kertész Wilkinson -- The call of the human voice in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine / Michal Grover-Friedlander -- The performance of vision in Peter Sellars's television production of Cosi fan tutte / Marcia J. Citron -- Sensational performing and promotional bodies / Sherril Dodds -- Musical instruments, glass cases, and headsets: sound and sensation in France's Museum of Music / Carla Zecher -- Village noise and Bruegel's parables / Hiroyuki Minamino -- Pastoral pleasures sensual sounds: paintings of love, music, and morality in sixteenth-century Italy / Katherine A. McIver -- The signifying serpent: seduction by cultural stereotype in seventeenth-century England / Julia Craig-McFeely -- Musicology and the problem of sonic abuse / Jamie C. Kassler -- An historical perspective on the study of music perception / Amy B. Graziano.
Abstract This book brings together previously disparate approaches to studying the cultural and scientific ways in which music and the sense of hearing work directly on the mind and body, particularly in relation to the other senses. From Bolivia and Hungary to the Old Master paintings to the manic pace of dance video, this book considers ways in which music works on the socially constructed, representational, or sexualized body as a means of healing, enhancing attractiveness, and affecting mental and physical states. Music is also presented as an explanatory system and agent of mass manipulation, on its own and in relation to other media and intellectual or cultural tools
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0815334214

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Music Music Stacks ML3830 .M982 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold