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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... Poetry of Praise Stephen M. Buhler / 176 6. ''Longindyingcall'': Of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens Lawrence Kramer / 194 7. Russian Rusalkas and Nationalism: Water, Power, and Women Inna Naroditskaya / 216 8. Rheinsirenen: Loreley and ...
... Poetry of Praise Stephen M. Buhler / 176 6. ''Longindyingcall'': Of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens Lawrence Kramer / 194 7. Russian Rusalkas and Nationalism: Water, Power, and Women Inna Naroditskaya / 216 8. Rheinsirenen: Loreley and ...
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... poetry of praise or earthly fame is like a siren; or, as Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong explain, a corporate record executive's promises to a rising star render him a siren. The siren, mermaid, rusalka, or their sisters in this book ...
... poetry of praise or earthly fame is like a siren; or, as Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong explain, a corporate record executive's promises to a rising star render him a siren. The siren, mermaid, rusalka, or their sisters in this book ...
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... poet Geo√rey Chaucer drew together several layers of English folklore, French literary romance, Christian oral tradition, and ancient natural history in his brief reference to the paranatural birdsong which was ''lyke to be / Songe of ...
... poet Geo√rey Chaucer drew together several layers of English folklore, French literary romance, Christian oral tradition, and ancient natural history in his brief reference to the paranatural birdsong which was ''lyke to be / Songe of ...
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... poets, visual artists, and musicians to describe or emulate. Just as the siren has most often been female, until the twentieth century, when women reclaimed her image in unprecedented numbers, the artists who accomplished her ...
... poets, visual artists, and musicians to describe or emulate. Just as the siren has most often been female, until the twentieth century, when women reclaimed her image in unprecedented numbers, the artists who accomplished her ...
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... poetic promise, embodies prophetic knowledge and the meaning of life and death. She, the song, may be the key to ... poets and philosophers of a skeptical era: Adorno and Horkheimer, Kafka and Nietzsche and Rilke, all men concerned with ...
... poetic promise, embodies prophetic knowledge and the meaning of life and death. She, the song, may be the key to ... poets and philosophers of a skeptical era: Adorno and Horkheimer, Kafka and Nietzsche and Rilke, all men concerned with ...
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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