Listening To The Sirens,9780520215870

Listening To The Sirens

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ISBN13: 9780520215870
ISBN10: 0520215877
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-10-30
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

In this fresh and innovative study, Judith A. Peraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with a close examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens--whose music seduced Ulysses into a state of mind in which he would gladly sacrifice everything for the illicit pleasures promised in their song--Peraino goes on to consider musical creatures, musical gods and demigods, musical humans, and music-addled listeners.

Author Biography

Judith A. Peraino is Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(10)
Songs of the Sirens
11(57)
desire
A Music of One's Own
68(42)
discipline
Queer Ears and Icons
110(42)
sign systems
Homomusical Communities
152(43)
production
Flights of Fancy
195(58)
power
Notes 253(54)

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