Music of the SirensLinda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography. |
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... female, they may sometimes be male. Mortal or eternal, they may deliver death or bestow the kiss of everlasting life. They haunt the forests of Russia and the mountains of Bolivia, the foggy coasts of Norway and the warm seas of the ...
... female, they may sometimes be male. Mortal or eternal, they may deliver death or bestow the kiss of everlasting life. They haunt the forests of Russia and the mountains of Bolivia, the foggy coasts of Norway and the warm seas of the ...
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... female form and seduce earthly women as well as men; the regional prototypes of the Russian rusalka are male-female couples.6 The classical triton was the male equivalent of the water-nymph or the siren, with his loud military ...
... female form and seduce earthly women as well as men; the regional prototypes of the Russian rusalka are male-female couples.6 The classical triton was the male equivalent of the water-nymph or the siren, with his loud military ...
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... female, until the twentieth century, when women reclaimed her image in unprecedented numbers, the artists who accomplished her transmission from the oral to the written realm were, for the most part, men. Describing her—with hair blue ...
... female, until the twentieth century, when women reclaimed her image in unprecedented numbers, the artists who accomplished her transmission from the oral to the written realm were, for the most part, men. Describing her—with hair blue ...
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... (female) orgasmic ecstasy. The siren epitomizes the love-death of romanticism, as Kramer and Naroditskaya show in these pages. But an encounter with a siren is not always about sex. It may be about creativity, the dream, artistic ...
... (female) orgasmic ecstasy. The siren epitomizes the love-death of romanticism, as Kramer and Naroditskaya show in these pages. But an encounter with a siren is not always about sex. It may be about creativity, the dream, artistic ...
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... ironic and emotive ways, she finds new means to evoke aquatic and passionate imagery in a free-spirited female voice. In a di√erent but no less expressive medium, contemporary poet Amy Gerstler describes a siren as [ ∞∞ ] introduction.
... ironic and emotive ways, she finds new means to evoke aquatic and passionate imagery in a free-spirited female voice. In a di√erent but no less expressive medium, contemporary poet Amy Gerstler describes a siren as [ ∞∞ ] introduction.
Contents
Siren Traditions and Musical Creation in the CentralSouthern Andes | |
Heavenly and Earthly Sirens in Sixteenth and SeventeenthCentury Literary and Visual Culture | |
5 The Sirens the Epicurean Boat and the Poetry of Praise | |
Of Music Modernity and the Sirens | |
Water Power and Women | |
Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens | |
Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in Africa | |
Pop Sirens at the Twentyfirst Century | |
12 The Cocktail Siren in David Lynchs Blue Velvet | |
Bibliography | |
List of Contributors | |
Index | |
Back Cover | |
The Legend of a Greek Singer in a Turkish Tavern | |
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