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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... contexts. More than any other quality, it is the siren's music that positions her in the flowing spaces between the human, animal, and spirit worlds, between past and present, danger and delight. These spaces are the substance of myth ...
... contexts. More than any other quality, it is the siren's music that positions her in the flowing spaces between the human, animal, and spirit worlds, between past and present, danger and delight. These spaces are the substance of myth ...
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... contexts of desolation. Isaiah's prophecy on the fall of Babylon includes the prediction that foul creatures shall inhabit her walls (13:21–22); but what these creatures are is by no means clear. In third place are bənôt ya' ̆an ̄ah ...
... contexts of desolation. Isaiah's prophecy on the fall of Babylon includes the prediction that foul creatures shall inhabit her walls (13:21–22); but what these creatures are is by no means clear. In third place are bənôt ya' ̆an ̄ah ...
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... contexts replace the classical Ulixes with the medieval Ulysses used (with stress on the second syllable) by poets from Golding to Pope. All unacknowledged translations are my own. 1. This assumes the widely held belief that a poem.
... contexts replace the classical Ulixes with the medieval Ulysses used (with stress on the second syllable) by poets from Golding to Pope. All unacknowledged translations are my own. 1. This assumes the widely held belief that a poem.
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... context is the central deception of Franz Kafka's short story ''The Silence of the Sirens'' (written between 1917 and 1923), which relies on the mime of emotive musical performance, with the title characters' ''throats rising and ...
... context is the central deception of Franz Kafka's short story ''The Silence of the Sirens'' (written between 1917 and 1923), which relies on the mime of emotive musical performance, with the title characters' ''throats rising and ...
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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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