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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... woman and an earthly or celestial man.1 The existence of ''real'' or biological sirens has often seemed as plausible as the existence of a spirit world or the peoples and traditions of unfamiliar cultures, as real as any other creature ...
... woman and an earthly or celestial man.1 The existence of ''real'' or biological sirens has often seemed as plausible as the existence of a spirit world or the peoples and traditions of unfamiliar cultures, as real as any other creature ...
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... woman whose song envelops its listener in an open void, both space and the immaterial art of music have most often been conceived as feminine.9 The woman musician becomes a siren, becomes sexually available, as discussed in contrasting ...
... woman whose song envelops its listener in an open void, both space and the immaterial art of music have most often been conceived as feminine.9 The woman musician becomes a siren, becomes sexually available, as discussed in contrasting ...
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... woman and the legs of a bird; Virgil's hybrid bird-maidens born of the Achelous River and the muse Calliope; Ovid's metamorphosed maidens, soaring above land and sea at the behest of the harvest-goddess; and the first fishtailed sirens ...
... woman and the legs of a bird; Virgil's hybrid bird-maidens born of the Achelous River and the muse Calliope; Ovid's metamorphosed maidens, soaring above land and sea at the behest of the harvest-goddess; and the first fishtailed sirens ...
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... woman-bird, woman-fish, both, or neither. Sometimes she is a serpent, sometimes a woman-spirit, a fairy, or the whisper of a dream. Sometimes, as Stephen Buhler emphasizes, the poetry of praise or earthly fame is like a siren; or, as ...
... woman-bird, woman-fish, both, or neither. Sometimes she is a serpent, sometimes a woman-spirit, a fairy, or the whisper of a dream. Sometimes, as Stephen Buhler emphasizes, the poetry of praise or earthly fame is like a siren; or, as ...
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... woman with a fish tail, the Polish syrenka, carries a shield and raised sword on the Warsaw coat of arms, embodying Polish nationalism. The siren Parthenope serves a similar purpose for Naples, to which she also serves as mythic ...
... woman with a fish tail, the Polish syrenka, carries a shield and raised sword on the Warsaw coat of arms, embodying Polish nationalism. The siren Parthenope serves a similar purpose for Naples, to which she also serves as mythic ...
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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