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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations. This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Singing Each to Each Inna Naroditskaya and Linda Phyllis Austern 1. Sirens in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Leofranc Holford-Strevens 2. "Teach Me to Heare Mermaides Singinge": Embodiments of (Acoustic) Pleasure and Danger in the Modern West Linda Phyllis Austern 3. Devils, Daydreams, and Desire: Siren Traditions and Musical Creation in the Central-Southern Andes Henry Stobart 4. "Sweet aluring harmony": Heavenly and Earthly Sirens in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literary and Visual Culture Elena Laura Calogero 5. The Sirens, the Epicurean Boat, and the Poetry of Praise Stephen M. Buhler 6. "Longindyingcall": Of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens Lawrence Kramer 7. Russian Rusalkas and Nationalism: Water, Power, and Women Inna Naroditskaya 8. Rheinsirenen: Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens Annegret Fauser 9. The Mermaid of the Meyhane: The Legend of a Greek Singer in a Turkish Tavern John Morgan O'Connell 10. Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in Africa Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk 11. The Navel, the Corporate, the Contradictory: Pop Sirens at the Twenty-first Century Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong 12. The Cocktail Siren in David Lynch's Blue Velvet Jeongwon Joe Bibliography List of Contributors Index ...
