| Description |
xi, 203 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index. |
| Contents |
Representing disability -- Narrating disability -- Stravinsky's aesthetics of disability -- Madness -- Idiocy -- Autism -- Therapeutic music theory and the tyranny of the normal. |
| Summary |
Preeminent music theorist and leader in the study of music and disability Joseph Straus presents a truly groundbreaking take on musical modernism--demonstrating in an expansive and vivid multimedia presentation that modernist music is inextricably entwined with attitudes toward disability. In Broken Beauty, Straus argues that the most characteristic features of musical modernism--fractured forms, immobilized harmonies, conflicting textural layers, radical simplification of means in some cases, and radical complexity and hermeticism in others--can be understood as musical depictions of disability conditions, including deformity/disfigurement, mobility impairment, madness, idiocy, and autism. Against the traditional medical model of disability, which sees it as a bodily defect requiring diagnosis and normalization or cure, this new sociocultural model of disability sees it as cultural artifact, something that is created by and creates culture. Straus places this revised model of disability against a wide range of canonical, high-art concert music from the first decades of the century through the 1950s. Broken Beauty illustrates how disability is right at the core of musical modernism; it is one of the things that musical modernism is fundamentally about [Publisher description] |
| Subject |
People with disabilities in music.
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People with disabilities in music. |
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Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Modernism (Music)
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Modernism (Music) |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Behinderung. |
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Moderne. |
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Musik. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Straus, Joseph Nathan. Broken beauty (OCoLC)1243276649 |
| ISBN |
9780190871208 (hardcover) |
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0190871202 |
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9780190871239 (companion website) |
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