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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
Blake Howe (Ed.)
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 952 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 173 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1516.
The Oxford Handbook of Music and 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 biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected ... Read more
The Oxford Handbook of Music and 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 biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Condition
New
Weight
1516g
Number of Pages
952
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190650605
SKU
V9780190650605
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Ref
99-35
About Blake Howe (Ed.)
Blake Howe, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Louisana State University Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Neil Lerner, Professor of Music, Davidson College Joseph Straus, Distinguished Professor of Music, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies is a ground-breaking contribution to the field of cultural disability studies and to the recent arrival of musicology within this field of study. This publication is a must for anyone seeking a greater understanding of the representation of disability in music. Readers interested in the participation ... Read more