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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... women as well as men; the regional prototypes of the Russian rusalka are male-female couples.6 The classical triton ... woman whose song envelops its listener in an open void, both space and the immaterial art of music have most often ...
... women as well as men; the regional prototypes of the Russian rusalka are male-female couples.6 The classical triton ... woman whose song envelops its listener in an open void, both space and the immaterial art of music have most often ...
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... women's interiority and invitation to comfort or seduction. The siren and her sisters may therefore be creatures whose vocal beauty obscures the perils and dangers of embodied union, serving as a metaphor against trusting the ear above ...
... women's interiority and invitation to comfort or seduction. The siren and her sisters may therefore be creatures whose vocal beauty obscures the perils and dangers of embodied union, serving as a metaphor against trusting the ear above ...
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... women, transgressing male territory to play instruments used exclusively in war or for masculine erotic or civic display, and rea≈rming femininity on others linked to women's spaces and pursuits. In the Bolivian Andes, music may be ...
... women, transgressing male territory to play instruments used exclusively in war or for masculine erotic or civic display, and rea≈rming femininity on others linked to women's spaces and pursuits. In the Bolivian Andes, music may be ...
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... women reclaimed her image in unprecedented numbers, the artists who accomplished her transmission from the oral to ... woman's love can compare with the rich and unattainable paradox of siren-love. Acting as both sweet angelic bird and ...
... women reclaimed her image in unprecedented numbers, the artists who accomplished her transmission from the oral to ... woman's love can compare with the rich and unattainable paradox of siren-love. Acting as both sweet angelic bird and ...
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... women's rights and women's equality particularly found inspiration in the sirens. In her heyday in 1870, su√ragist Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927), called ''the queen of the prostitutes'' and paying ''the pioneer's penalty of ...
... women's rights and women's equality particularly found inspiration in the sirens. In her heyday in 1870, su√ragist Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927), called ''the queen of the prostitutes'' and paying ''the pioneer's penalty of ...
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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