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Music of the Sirens [electronic resource] / edited by Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sirens (Mythology).
- Sex in music.
- Women in music.
- Feminism and music.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural
- Contents:
- Introduction : singing each to each / Inna Naroditskaya and Linda Phyllis Austern
- Sirens in antiquity and the middle ages / Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- "Teach me to heare mermaides singing" : embodiments of (acoustic) pleasure and danger in the modern West / Linda Phyllis Austern
- Devils, daydreams, and desire : siren traditions and musical creation in the Central-Southern Andes / Henry Stobart
- "Sweet aluring harmony" : heavenly and earthly sirens in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and visual culture / Elena Laura Calogero
- The sirens, the epicurean boat, and the poetry of praise / Stephen M. Buhler
- "Longindyingcall" : of music, modernity, and the sirens / Lawrence Kramer
- Russian rusalkas and nationalism : water, power, and women / Inna Naroditskaya
- Rheinsirenen : Loreley and other Rhine maidens / Annegret Fauser
- The mermaid of the Meyhane : the legend of a Greek singer in a Turkish tavern / John Morgan O'Connell
- Siren serenades : music for Mami Wata and other water spirits in Africa / Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk
- The navel, the corporate, the contradictory : pop sirens at the twenty-first century / Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong
- The cocktail siren in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Jeongwon Joe.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-408) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612072888
- 1-282-07288-9
- 0-253-11207-9
- OCLC:
- 476041235
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