Title:
The Oxford handbook of music and disability studies / edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus.
Author:
Howe, Blake.
Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie.
Lerner, Neil William, 1966-
Straus, Joseph Nathan.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Call Number:
ML3916 .O96 2016
Abstract:
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, mobility impairment often coupled with bodily difference, and cognitive and intellectual impairments. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments. First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity [Publisher description].
ISBN:
9780199331444
9780190650605
Series:
[Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xviii, 928 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Disability studies in music, music in disability studies / Disability communities. -- Toward an ethnographic model of disability, and human flourishing / Music, intellectual disability, and human flourishing / Imagined hearing: music-making in deaf culture / Musical expression among deaf and hearing song signers / The politics of sound: music and blindness in France, 1750-1830 / "They say we exchanged our eyes for the xylophone": resisting tropes of disability as spiritual deviance in Birifor music / Understanding is seeing: music analysis and blindness / Performing disability. -- Mechanized bodies: technology and supplements in Björk's electronica / Subhuman or superhuman? (Musical) assistive technology, performance enhancement, and the aesthetic/moral debate / Disabling music performance / Musical and bodily difference in Cirque du Soleil / Punk rock and disability: cripping subculture / Moving experiences: blindness and the performing self in Imre Ungár's Chopin / Stevie Wonder's tactile keyboard mediation, black key compositional development, and the quest for creative autonomy / Oh, the stories we tell! Performer-audience-disability / The dancing ground: embodied knowledge, disability, and visibility in New Orleans second lines / Race, gender, sexuality. -- A cannon-shaped man with an amphibian voice: castrato and disability in eighteenth-century France / Sexuality, trauma, and dissociated expression / That "weird and wonderful posture": jump "Jim Crow" and the performance of disability / Disabled moves: multidimensional music listening, disturbing/activating differences of identity / War and trauma. -- Disabled Union veterans and the performance of martial begging / "Good bye, old arm": the domestication of veterans' disabilities in Civil War era popular songs / "The absurd disordering of notes": dysfunctional memory in the post-traumatic music of Ivor Gurney / Vocal ability and musical performances of nuclear damages in the Marshall Islands / Premodern conceptions. -- Lyrical humor(s) in the "fumeur" songs / Difference, disability, and composition in the late Middle Ages: of Antonio "Zachara" da Teramo and Francesco "Il Cieco" da Firenze / Madness and music as (dis)ability in early modern England / Saul, David, and music's ideal body / The classical tradition. -- Narratives of affliction and recovery in Haydn / Music and the labyrinth of melancholy: traditions and paradoxes in C.P.E. Bach and Beethoven / Musical prosthesis: form, expression, and narrative structure in Beethoven's sonata movements / Sounds of mind: music and madness in the popular imagination / Modernism and after. -- Modernist opera's stigmatized subjects / Autism and postwar serialism as neurodiverse forms of cultural modernism / Broken facture: representations of disability in the music of Allan Pettersson / Representing the extraordinary body: musical modernism's aesthetics of disability / "Defamiliarizing the familiar": Michael Nyman, narrative medicine, and the composition of mental blindness / Film and musical theatre. -- Scene in a new light: monstrous mothers, disabled daughters, and the performance of feminism and disability in The light in the piazza (2005) and Next to normal (2008) / "Pitiful creature of darkness": the subhuman and the superhuman in The Phantom of the opera / "Waitin' for the light to shine": musicals and disability / Music for Olivier's Richard III: cinematic scoring for the early modern monstrous / Hearing a site of masculinity in Franz Waxman's score for Pride of the Marines (1945)
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