Music, sensation, and sensuality / edited by Linda Phyllis Austern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957-

Series:

Critical and cultural musicology ; v. 5.

Critical and cultural musicology ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (676 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Divided into three sections, Linda Phyllis Austern collects eighteen, cross-disciplinary essays written by some of the most important names in the field to look at this stimulating topic. The first section focuses on the cultural and scientific ways in which music and the sense of hearing work directly on the mind and body. Part Two investigates how music works on the socially constructed, representational or sexualized body as a means of healing, beautifying and maintaining a balance between the mental and physical. Finally, the book explores the action of music as it is heard and sensed by

Contents:

Descartes on musical training and the body / Kate van Orden

Bemetzrieder's dream : Diderot and the pathology of tonal sensibility in the Leçons de clavecin / Thomas Christensen

"Little pearl teardrops" : Schubert, Schumann, and the tremulous body of romantic song / Lawrence Kramer

Untying the music/language knot / Elizabeth Tolbert

Sensational sacrifices : feasting the senses in the Bolivian Andes / Henry Stobart

Siren sensualities in physical theatre : Lloyd Newson's Strange fish (1992) / Janet Adshead-Lansdale

Heroism undone : the erotic manuscript parodies of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies en musique / Catherine Gordon-Seifert

Processions for the dead, the senses, and ritual identity in colonial Mexico / Grayson Wagstaff

Between life and death : the funeral and mourning rituals of the southeastern Hungarian Vlach Roma / Irén Kertész Wilkinson

The call of the human voice in Poulenc's La voix humaine / Michal Grover-Friedlander

The performance of vision in Peter Sellar's television production of Così fan tutte / Marcia J. Citron

Sensational, performing, and promotional bodies / Sherril Dodds

Musical instruments, glass cases, and headsets : sound and sensation in France's Museum of Music / Carla Zecher

Village noise and Bruegel's parables / Hiroyuki Minamino

Pastoral pleasures, sensual sounds : paintings of love, music, and morality in sixteenth-century Italy / Katherine A. McIver

The signifying serpent : seduction by cultural stereotype in seventeenth-century England / Julia Craig-McFeely

Musicology and the problem of sonic abuse / Jamie C. Kassler

An historical perspective on the study of music perception / Amy B. Grazianumber.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-135-68985-7

1-138-97661-X

1-315-05350-0

1-135-68978-4

9781315053509

OCLC:

862049102