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Music of the sirens
- Title
- Music of the sirens / edited by Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- vii, 423 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-408) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : singing each to each / Inna Naroditskaya and Linda Phyllis Austern -- 1. Sirens in antiquity and the Middle Ages / Leofranc Holford-Strevens -- 2. "Teach me to heare mermaides singing" : embodiments of (acoustic) pleasure and danger in the modern West / Linda Phyllis Austern -- 3. Devils, daydreams, and desire : siren traditions and musical creation in the central-southern Andes / Henry Stobart -- 4. "Sweet aluring harmony" : heavenly and earthly sirens in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and visual culture / Elena Laura Calogero -- 5. The sirens, the epicurean boat, and the poetry of praise / Stephen M. Buhler -- 6. "Longindyingcall" : of music, modernity, and the sirens / Lawrence Kramer -- 7. Russian Rusalkas and nationalism : water, power, and women / Inna Karoditskaya -- 8. Rheinsirenen : Loreley and other rhine maidens / Annegret Fauser -- 9. The mermaid of the Meyhane : the legend of a Greek singer in a Turkish tavern / John Morgan O'Connell -- 10. Siren serenades : music for Mami Wata and other water spirits in Africa / Henry John Drewal, Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk -- 11. The navel, the corporate, the contradictory : pop sirens at the twenty-first century / Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong -- 12. The cocktail siren in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Jeongwon Joe.
- ISBN
- 025334736X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253218462 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005034293
- 9780253347367
- OCLC
- OCM62341591
- SCSB-14490658
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries