Music of the Sirens

Name: Music of the Sirens
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ISBN: 9780253218469

ISBN-10: 0253218462

ISBN-13: 9780253218469

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda Phyllis Austern, Inna Naroditskaya, Linda Phyllis Austern, Inna Naroditskaya

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An impressive range of views and analyses of the pervasive archetype of siren and their music

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.17" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University.Inna Naroditskaya is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Singing Each to Each




Sirens in Antiquity and the Middle Ages




"Teach Me to Heare Mermaides Singing": Embodiments of (Acoustic) Pleasure and Danger in the Modern West




Devils, Daydreams, and Desire: Siren Traditions and Musical Creation in the Central-Southern Andes




"Sweet aluring harmony": Heavenly and Earthly Sirens in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literary and Visual Culture




The Sirens, the Epicurean Boat, and the Poetry of Praise




"Longindyingcall": Of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens




Russian Rusalkas and Nationalism: Water, Power, and Women




Rheinsirenen: Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens




The Mermaid of the Meyhane: The Legend of a Greek Singer in a Turkish Tavern




Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in Africa




The Navel, the Corporate, the Contradictory: Pop Sirens at the Twenty-first Century




The Cocktail Siren in David Lynch's Blue Velvet



Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index