{"product_id":"sounding-off-9780415979078","title":"Sounding Off","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisability, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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. \u003cem\u003eSounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents    Foreword  Rosemarie Garland-Thomson    1. Introduction  Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus    Part I. Narrating disability musically  2. Fever \/ Fragile \/ Fatigue: Music, AIDS, Present, and …  Paul G. Attinello    3. Of Bodies and Narratives: Musical Representations of Pain and Illness in HBO’s W;t  Maria Cizmic    4. Female Subjectivity, Disability, and Musical Authorship in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue  Kelly Gross    5. Dancing out of the Dark: How Music Refutes Disability Stereotypes in Dancer in the Dark  Jennifer Iverson  6. The Horrors of One-Handed Pianism: Music and Disability in The Beast with Five Fingers  Neil Lerner    Part II. Performing disability musically  7. Stuttering in American Popular Song, 1890-1930  Daniel Goldmark    8. Learning to Hear Autistically  Dave Headlam    9. Glenn Gould, Autistic Savant  S. Timothy Maloney    10. Using a Music-Theoretical Approach to Explore the Impact of Disability on Musical Development: A Case Study  Adam Ockelford    11. Melisma as Malady: Cavalli’s Il Giasone (1649) and opera’s earliest stuttering role  Andrew Oster    12. The Organ of the Soul: Voice, Damage and Affect  Laurie Stras    Part III. Composing disability musically  13.  Les Chansons des fous: On the Edge of Madness with Alkan  Poundie Burstein    14. Finding Autism in the Compositions of a Nineteenth-Century Prodigy: Reconsidering Blind Tom Wiggins  Stephanie Jensen-Moulton    15. Beyond Abnormality—Dis\/ability and Music’s Metamorphic Subjectivities  Marianne Kielian-Gilbert    16. Mental Illness and Musical Metaphor in the First Movement of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique  Stephen Rodgers    17. Inversional Balance and the Normal Body in the Music of Schoenberg and Webern  Joseph N. Straus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018219749719,"sku":"9780415979078","price":47.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415979078.jpg?v=1750776060","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sounding-off-9780415979078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}