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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... Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens Annegret Fauser / 250 9. The Mermaid of the Meyhane: The Legend of a Greek Singer in a Turkish Tavern John Morgan O'Connell / 273 10. Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Contents.
... Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens Annegret Fauser / 250 9. The Mermaid of the Meyhane: The Legend of a Greek Singer in a Turkish Tavern John Morgan O'Connell / 273 10. Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Contents.
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Linda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya. 10. Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in Africa Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk / 294 11. The Navel, the Corporate, the Contradictory: Pop Sirens at ...
Linda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya. 10. Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in Africa Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk / 294 11. The Navel, the Corporate, the Contradictory: Pop Sirens at ...
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... mami wata, she has many names and many homes across human time and geography. Her alluring vocal powers and other distinctive traits have been borrowed by nightclub singers and MTV stars many years and half-a-world apart. Sirens appear ...
... mami wata, she has many names and many homes across human time and geography. Her alluring vocal powers and other distinctive traits have been borrowed by nightclub singers and MTV stars many years and half-a-world apart. Sirens appear ...
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... mami wata discussed by Drewal, Gore, and Kisliuk in the present collection is a particularly derivative figure, uniting such disparate influences as ancient indigenous African images of serpents and aquatic creatures, fourteenth- and ...
... mami wata discussed by Drewal, Gore, and Kisliuk in the present collection is a particularly derivative figure, uniting such disparate influences as ancient indigenous African images of serpents and aquatic creatures, fourteenth- and ...
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... mami wata, and other similar figures. The collection begins with the narratives of ancient Greece, and goes through such regions as Africa, Bolivia, and Turkey before ending with American film. Our sirens come from contrasting oral and ...
... mami wata, and other similar figures. The collection begins with the narratives of ancient Greece, and goes through such regions as Africa, Bolivia, and Turkey before ending with American film. Our sirens come from contrasting oral and ...
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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