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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... feminine qualities were reinforced. The most famous musical figures of this type are nearly always female; men who borrow the power of sirens' music to charm or corrupt may be labeled ''e√eminate,'' as in an English poem of 1600: Who ...
... feminine qualities were reinforced. The most famous musical figures of this type are nearly always female; men who borrow the power of sirens' music to charm or corrupt may be labeled ''e√eminate,'' as in an English poem of 1600: Who ...
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... femininity on others linked to women's spaces and pursuits. In the Bolivian Andes, music may be traced originally to them. ''They are by the Greeks called Tractatoriae, as by attracting and insinuating into the ears of man,'' says an ...
... femininity on others linked to women's spaces and pursuits. In the Bolivian Andes, music may be traced originally to them. ''They are by the Greeks called Tractatoriae, as by attracting and insinuating into the ears of man,'' says an ...
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... femininity from male dominance and impersonation.18 Those at the forefront of the political struggles for women's rights and women's equality particularly found inspiration in the sirens. In her heyday in 1870, su√ragist Victoria ...
... femininity from male dominance and impersonation.18 Those at the forefront of the political struggles for women's rights and women's equality particularly found inspiration in the sirens. In her heyday in 1870, su√ragist Victoria ...
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... feminine elemental creature loaned her name to a journal of ''anarcho-feminism'' which first appeared in Chicago in 1971. On the cover of the group's manifesto and its title issues was the image of an angry siren, her mouth wide, her ...
... feminine elemental creature loaned her name to a journal of ''anarcho-feminism'' which first appeared in Chicago in 1971. On the cover of the group's manifesto and its title issues was the image of an angry siren, her mouth wide, her ...
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... femininity and maternity, is often personified in creation legends as wife of the sun, The Second Sex, trans. and ed. H. M. Parshley (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), 144. 2. See Elaine Morgan The Descent of Woman (New York: Stein and ...
... femininity and maternity, is often personified in creation legends as wife of the sun, The Second Sex, trans. and ed. H. M. Parshley (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), 144. 2. See Elaine Morgan The Descent of Woman (New York: Stein 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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