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Neil Lerner (Ed.) - Sounding Off - 9780415979078 - V9780415979078
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Sounding Off

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Description for Sounding Off Paperback. Editor(s): Straus, Joseph; Lerner, Neil. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 black & white halftones, 43 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 424.

Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach to bodily difference is the proper study of humanists. The interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies has recently emerged to theorize social and cultural constructions of the meaning of disability.

Although there has been an astonishing outpouring of humanistic work in Disability Studies in the past ten years, there has been virtually no echo in musicology or ... Read more

Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music promises to be a landmark study for scholars and students of music, disability, and culture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415979078
SKU
V9780415979078
Shipping Time
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About Neil Lerner (Ed.)
Neil Lerner is Associate Professor of Music at Davidson College. A specialist in film music, he has published studies of film scores by composers including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, John Williams, and Dimitri Tiomkin. Joseph N. Straus is Presidential Professor of Music at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and former President of the Society for Music ... Read more

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