The Oxford handbook of music and disability studies
By: edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus
Series: [Oxford handbooks]; Oxford handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 928
ISBN-13: 9780199331444; 9780190650605
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: People with disabilities in music; Disability studies; Music; Performance; Musicians with disabilities; Physiological aspects
Other titles: Music and disability studies
Description: The essays in this volume share a theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability is shown to be a core feature of the musical identity of music makers (especially composers and performers), something that affects their lives and works and their public reception. Music represents disability in various ways and affirms the notion that disability is a performance, something you do rather than something you are. These essays make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity. They also address an important lacuna within a Disability Studies that has mostly overlooked music as a medium through which disability can be constructed.
Notes: "About the companion website": page xix.

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