Joseph N. Straus (Distinquished Professor, Distinquished Professor,

Extraordinary Measures

Disability in Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Extraordinary Measures studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. It shows that music (its composers, performers, listeners, critical traditions, and exemplary works) both embodies and constructs disability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780199766468
• ISBN-10: 0199766460
• Artikelnr.: 33252196

Autorenporträt

A Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Joseph N. Straus is the author of numerous books and articles, mostly on topics in music since 1900. He is a former President of the Society for Music Theory, and is the leading figure in the study of music in relationship to disability.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1: Composers with Disabilities and the Critical Reception of their
Music
* 2: Musical Narratives of Disability Overcome: Beethoven
* 3: Musical Narratives of Disability Accommodated: Schubert
* 4: Musical Narratives of Balance Lost and Regained: Schoenberg and
Webern
* 5: Musical Narratives of the Fractured Body: Schoenberg, Stravinsky,
* Bartók, and Copland
* 6: Disability within Music-Theoretical Traditions
* 7: Performing Music and Performing Disability
* 8: Prodigious Hearing, Normal Hearing, and Disablist Hearing
* Glossary of Musical Terms
* Works Cited
* Index

Rezensionen

A meticulously researched book that connects disability narratives with composing, theorizing, performing, and hearing music. Journal of the American Musicological Society