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The Oxford Handbook Of Music And Disabi
. Ed(S): Howe, Blake; Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie; Lerner, Neil; Straus, Joseph
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Hardback. Like race, gender, and sexuality, disability is a social and cultural construction. Music, musicians, and music-making simultaneously embody and shape representations and narratives of disability. Disability - culturally stigmatized minds and bodies - is one of the things that music in all times and places can be said to be about. Editor(s): Howe, Blake; Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie; Lerner, Neil; Straus, Joseph. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Music. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 171 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1724.
The newly emerged interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies offers a sociopolitical analysis of disability, focusing on its social construction, and shifting attention from biology to culture. In the past fifteen years, disability-related scholarly work has been undertaken in a variety of disciplines, and disability now occupies a central place in cultural analysis, along with well-established categories like race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive "state of current research" for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the ... Read more
The newly emerged interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies offers a sociopolitical analysis of disability, focusing on its social construction, and shifting attention from biology to culture. In the past fifteen years, disability-related scholarly work has been undertaken in a variety of disciplines, and disability now occupies a central place in cultural analysis, along with well-established categories like race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive "state of current research" for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
952
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Number of Pages
952
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199331444
SKU
V9780199331444
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About . Ed(S): Howe, Blake; Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie; Lerner, Neil; Straus, Joseph
Blake Howe is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Louisiana State University. Stephanie Jensen-Moulton is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Neil Lerner is Professor of Music and Co-Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Film & Media Studies at Davidson College. Joseph Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate ... Read more
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