Cover Image

The Oxford handbook of music and disability studies /

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 th...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Howe, Blake, Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie, Lerner, Neil William, 1966-, Straus, Joseph Nathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
People with disabilities in music.
Disability studies.
Musicians with disabilities.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Disability studies in music, music in disability studies / Blake How, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus
  • Disability communities.
  • Toward an ethnographic model of disability, and human flourishing / Michael B. Bakan
  • Music, intellectual disability, and human flourishing / Licia Carlson
  • Imagined hearing: music-making in deaf culture / Jeannette DiBernardo Jones
  • Musical expression among deaf and hearing song signers / Anabel Maler
  • The politics of sound: music and blindness in France, 1750-1830 / Ingrid Sykes
  • "They say we exchanged our eyes for the xylophone": resisting tropes of disability as spiritual deviance in Birifor music / Brian Hogan
  • Understanding is seeing: music analysis and blindness / Shersten Johnson
  • Performing disability.
  • Mechanized bodies: technology and supplements in Björk's electronica / Jennifer Iverson
  • Subhuman or superhuman? (Musical) assistive technology, performance enhancement, and the aesthetic/moral debate / Laurie Stras
  • Disabling music performance / Blake Howe
  • Musical and bodily difference in Cirque du Soleil / Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
  • Punk rock and disability: cripping subculture / George McKay
  • Moving experiences: blindness and the performing self in Imre Ungár's Chopin / Stefan Sunandan Honisch
  • Stevie Wonder's tactile keyboard mediation, black key compositional development, and the quest for creative autonomy / Will Fulton
  • Oh, the stories we tell! Performer-audience-disability / Michael Beckerman
  • The dancing ground: embodied knowledge, disability, and visibility in New Orleans second lines / Daniella Santoro
  • Race, gender, sexuality.
  • A cannon-shaped man with an amphibian voice: castrato and disability in eighteenth-century France / Hedy Law
  • Sexuality, trauma, and dissociated expression / Fred Everett Maus
  • That "weird and wonderful posture": jump "Jim Crow" and the performance of disability / Sean Murray
  • Disabled moves: multidimensional music listening, disturbing/activating differences of identity / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
  • War and trauma.
  • Disabled Union veterans and the performance of martial begging / Michael Accinno
  • "Good bye, old arm": the domestication of veterans' disabilities in Civil War era popular songs / Devin Burke
  • "The absurd disordering of notes": dysfunctional memory in the post-traumatic music of Ivor Gurney / Beth Keyes
  • Vocal ability and musical performances of nuclear damages in the Marshall Islands / Jessica A. Schwartz
  • Premodern conceptions.
  • Lyrical humor(s) in the "fumeur" songs / Julie Singer
  • Difference, disability, and composition in the late Middle Ages: of Antonio "Zachara" da Teramo and Francesco "Il Cieco" da Firenze / Michael Scott Cuthbert
  • Madness and music as (dis)ability in early modern England / Samantha Bassler
  • Saul, David, and music's ideal body / Blake Howe
  • The classical tradition.
  • Narratives of affliction and recovery in Haydn / Floyd Grave
  • Music and the labyrinth of melancholy: traditions and paradoxes in C.P.E. Bach and Beethoven / Elaine Sisman
  • Musical prosthesis: form, expression, and narrative structure in Beethoven's sonata movements / Bruce Quaglia
  • Sounds of mind: music and madness in the popular imagination / James Deaville
  • Modernism and after.
  • Modernist opera's stigmatized subjects / Sherry D. Lee
  • Autism and postwar serialism as neurodiverse forms of cultural modernism / Joseph Straus
  • Broken facture: representations of disability in the music of Allan Pettersson / Allen Gimbel
  • Representing the extraordinary body: musical modernism's aesthetics of disability / Joseph Straus
  • "Defamiliarizing the familiar": Michael Nyman, narrative medicine, and the composition of mental blindness / Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
  • 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) / Ann M. Fox
  • "Pitiful creature of darkness": the subhuman and the superhuman in The Phantom of the opera / Jessica Sternfeld
  • "Waitin' for the light to shine": musicals and disability / Raymond Knapp
  • Music for Olivier's Richard III: cinematic scoring for the early modern monstrous / Kendra Preston Leonard
  • Hearing a site of masculinity in Franz Waxman's score for Pride of the Marines (1945) / Neil Lerner.