Music of the sirens
By: edited by Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya.
Contributors: Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957-; Naroditskaya, Inna, 1955-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington, [Ind.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Feminism and music.; Women in music.; Sex in music.; Sirens (Mythology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : singing each to each / Inna Naroditskaya and Linda Phyllis Austern; title: Sirens in antiquity and the middle ages / Leofranc Holford-Strevens; title: "Teach me to heare mermaides singinge" : embodiments of (acoustic) pleasure and danger in the modern West / Linda Phyllis Austern; title: Devils, daydreams, and desire : siren traditions and musical creation in the Central-Southern Andes / Henry Stobart; title: "Sweet aluring harmony" : heavenly and earthly sirens in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and visual culture / Elena Laura Calogero; title: The sirens, the epicurean boat, and the poetry of praise / Stephen M. Buhler; title: "Longindyingcall" : of music, modernity, and the sirens / Lawrence Kramer; title: Russian rusalkas and nationalism : water, power, and women / Inna Naroditskaya; title: Rheinsirenen : Loreley and other Rhine maidens / Annegret Fauser; title: The mermaid of the Meyhane : the legend of a Greek singer in a Turkish tavern / John Morgan O'Connell; title: Siren serenades : music for Mami Wata and other water spirits in Africa / Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk; title: The navel, the corporate, the contradictory : pop sirens at the twenty-first century / Thomasin Lamay and Robin Armstrong; title: The cocktail siren in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Jeongwon Joe.