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Extraordinary measures : disability in music / Joseph N. Straus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Straus, Joseph Nathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Composers with disabilities.
- Musicians with disabilities.
- Music--Psychological aspects.
- Musical analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves.
- Contents:
- Composers with disabilities and the critical reception of their music
- Musical narratives of disability overcome : Beethoven
- Musical narratives of disability accommodated : Schubert
- Musical narratives of balance lost and regained : Schoenberg and Webern
- Musical narratives of the fractured body : Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Copland
- Disability within music-theoretical traditions
- Performing music and performing disability
- Prodigious hearing, normal hearing, and disablist hearing.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983140-8
- 9786613039934
- 0-19-983030-4
- 0-19-976645-2
- 1-283-03993-1
- OCLC:
- 732807826
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