Disability and Music Performance

Informationen zum Autor Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas completed his PhD in 2016 as an Endeavour Postgraduate Award Holder (University of Melbourne). In 2008, he received a Fulbright Fellowship for International Postgraduate Studies at the United States of America, where he studied a master’s degree in music performance with a related field of studies in music and medicine at the University of North Texas (UNT). Currently, he works at the Department of Education and Training of the Victorian Government, Australia. Zusammenfassung This book provides a reading of the performing aspects of classical music in the context of the disabled body, conceptualising disability in music as valuable difference and diversity rather than as a deficit and an endpoint. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures; List of Music Examples; List of Tables; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; Chapter 1. Historical Intersections between Disability and Music Performance; Chapter 2. Ableism in the Socio-Musical Organisation; Chapter 3. Iconography of Performers with Disabilities; Chapter 4. The Visual Aspects of Disability in Piano Performance; Chapter 5. Overcoming Narratives and Piano Performance; Chapter 6. Ageing and Music Performance; Chapter 7. Disability Identity in Music Performance; Conclusion; Index

Product details

• Authors: Alejandro Alberto Tellez Vargas, Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138089150
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08915-0
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Theatre Studies, Disability: social aspects, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres