Sounding off : theorizing disability in music

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  1. Sounding off : theorizing disability in music / edited by Neil Lerner, Joseph N. Straus.
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  1. New York : Routledge, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Lerner, Neil William, 1966-
  2. Straus, Joseph Nathan.
Description
  1. xv, 295 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Disabilities
  2. Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
  3. Quotation in music
  4. Music > Performance > Physiological aspects
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction : theorizing disability in music / Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus -- Pt. I. Narrating disability musically -- 2. Fever/fragile/fatigue : music, AIDS, present, and ... / Paul Attinello -- 3. Of bodies and narratives : musical representations of pain and illness in HBO's W;t / Maria Cizmic -- 4. Female subjectivity, disability, and musical authorship in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue / Kelly Gross -- 5. Dancing out of the dark : how music refutes disability stereotypes in Dancer in the dark / Jennifer Iverson -- 6. The horrors of one-handed pianism : music and disability in The Beast with Five Fingers / Neil Lerner -- 7. Stuttering in American popular song, 1890-1930 / Daniel Goldmark -- Pt. II. Performing disability musically -- 8. Learning to hear autistically / Dave Headlam -- 9. Glenn Gould, autistic savant / S. Timothy Maloney -- 10. Using a music-theoretical approach to explore the impact of disability on musical development : a case study / Adam Ockelford -- 11. Melisma as malady : Cavalli's Il Giasone (1649) and Opera's earliest stuttering role / Andrew Oster -- 12. The organ of the soul : voice, damage, and affect / Laurie Stras -- Pt. III. Composing disability musically -- 13. Les chansons des fous : on the edge of madness with Alkan / L. Poundie Burstein -- 14. Finding autism in the compositions of a 19th-century prodigy : reconsidering "Blind Tom" wiggins / Stephanie Jensen-Moulton -- 15. Beyond abnormality - dis/ability and music's metamorphic subjectivities / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert -- 16. Mental illness and musical metaphor in the first movement of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique / Stephen Rodgers -- 17. Inversional balance and the "normal" body in the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern / Joseph N. Straus.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.