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Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music

By Joseph N. Straus , Neil Lerner

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0415979072, 9780415979078, 9780203961421
Open Library ID
OL7498404M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7039966 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
304\314
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach to bodily difference is the proper study of humanists. The interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies has recently emerged to theorize social and cultural constructions of the meaning of disability. Although there has been an astonishing outpouring of humanistic work in Disability Studies in the past ten years, there has been virtually no echo in musicology or music theory. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music is the first book-length work to focus on the historical and theoretical issues of music as it relates to disability. It shows that music, like literature and the other arts, simultaneously reflects and constructs cultural attitudes toward disability. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music promises to be a landmark study for scholars and students of music, disability, and culture.

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