Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music

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ISBN: 9780415979061 | 0415979064
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/26/2006

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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.

Acknowledgments

vii

Contributing Authors

Foreword

xiii

1 Introduction: Theorizing Disability in Music

(10)

NEIL LERNER AND JOSEPH N. STRAUS

Part I Narrating Disability Musically

(96)

2 Fever/Fragile/Fatigue: Music, AIDS, Present, and...

(10)

PAUL ATTINELLO

3 Of Bodies and Narratives: Musical Representations of Pain and Illness in HBO's W;t

(18)

MARIA CIZMIC

4 Female Subjectivity, Disability, and Musical Authorship in Krzysztof Kieglowski's Blue

(16)

KELLY GROSS

5 Dancing out of the Dark: How Music Refutes Disability Stereotypes in Dancer in the Dark

(18)

JENNIFER IVERSON

6 The Horrors of One-Handed Pianism: Music and Disability in The Beast with Five Fingers

(16)

NEIL LERNER

7 Stuttering in American Popular Song, 1890-1930

(18)

DANIEL GOLDMARK

Part II Performing Disability Musically

107

(78)

8 Learning to Hear Autistically

109

(12)

DAVE HEADLAM

9 Glenn Gould, Autistic Savant

121

(16)

S. TIMOTHY MALONEY

10 Using a Music-Theoretical Approach to Explore the Impact of Disability on Musical Development: A Case Study

137

(20)

ADAM OCKELFORD

11 Melisma as Malady: Cavalli's Il Giasone (1649) and Opera's Earliest Stuttering Role

157

(16)

ANDREW OSTER

12 The Organ of the Soul: Voice, Damage, and Affect

173

(14)

LAURIE STRAS

Part II Composing Disability Musically

185

(84)

13 Les chansons des fous: On the Edge of Madness with Alkan

187

(12)

L. POUNDIE BURSTEIN

14 Finding Autism in the Compositions of a 19th-Century Prodigy: Reconsidering "Blind Tom" Wiggins

199

(18)

STEPHANIE JENSEN-MOULTON

15 Beyond Abnormality — Dis/ability and Music's Metamorphic Subjectivities

217

(18)

MARIANNE KIELIAN-GILBERT

16 Mental Illness and Musical Metaphor in the First Movement of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

235

(22)

STEPHEN RODGERS

17 Inversional Balance and the "Normal" Body in the Music of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern

257

(12)

JOSEPH N. STRAUS

References

269

(18)

Index

287

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