Music of the Sirens,9780253218469

Music of the Sirens

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ISBN13: 9780253218469
ISBN10: 0253218462
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-06-24
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University.

Inna Naroditskaya is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
Introduction: Singing Each to Each
INNA NARODITSKAYA AND LINDA PHYLLIS AUSTERN
1(15)
1. Sirens in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS
16(36)
2. "Teach Me to Heare Mermaides Singing": Embodiments of (Acoustic) Pleasure and Danger in the Modern West
LINDA PHYLLIS AUSTERN
52(53)
3. Devils, Daydreams, and Desire: Siren Traditions and Musical Creation in the Central-Southern Andes
HENRY STOBART
105(35)
4. "Sweet aluring harmony": Heavenly and Earthly Sirens in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literary and Visual Culture
ELENA LAURA CALOGERO
140(36)
5. The Sirens, the Epicurean Boat, and the Poetry of Praise
STEPHEN M. BUHLER
176(18)
6. "Longindyingcall": Of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens
LAWRENCE KRAMER
194(22)
7. Russian Rusalkas and Nationalism: Water, Power, and Women
INNA NARODITSKAYA
216(34)
8. Rheinsirenen: Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens
ANNEGRET FAUSER
250(23)
9. The Mermaid of the Meyhane: The Legend of a Greek Singer in a Turkish Tavern
JOHN MORGAN O'CONNELL
273(21)
10. Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in Africa
HENRY JOHN DREWAL WITH CHARLES GORE AND MICHELLE KISLIUK
294(23)
11. The Navel, the Corporate, the Contradictory: Pop Sirens at the Twenty-first Century
THOMASIN LAMAY AND ROBIN ARMSTRONG
317(32)
12. The Cocktail Siren in David Lynch's Blue Velvet
JEONGWON JOE
349(22)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 371(38)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 409(4)
INDEX 413

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