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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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Additional Authors
  • Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957-
  • Naroditskaya, Inna, 1955-
Description
vii, 423 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm
Subject
  • Feminism and music
  • Women in music
  • Sex in music
  • Sirens (Mythology)
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