| Description |
xv, 295 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Theorizing disability in music / Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. Performing disability musically. Learning to hear autistically / Dave Headlam ; Glenn Gould, autistic 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 -- pt. 3. 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 ; Inversional balance and the "normal" body in the music or Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern / Joseph N. Straus. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Disabilities.
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Disabilities. |
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Quotation in music.
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Quotation in music. |
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Music -- Performance -- Physiological aspects.
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Music -- Performance -- Physiological aspects. |
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Music -- Performance. |
| Added Author |
Lerner, Neil William, 1966-
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Straus, Joseph Nathan.
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| ISBN |
0415979064 hardback |
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0415979072 paperback |
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9780415979061 hardback |
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9780415979078 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9780415979078 |
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