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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... listen to their dangerous songs—Shania Twain, Mariah Carey, and Lil' Kim, each of whom mastered (and created) her own mythology based on the tales and musics of many sorts of siren. This collection does not attempt to be comprehensive ...
... listen to their dangerous songs—Shania Twain, Mariah Carey, and Lil' Kim, each of whom mastered (and created) her own mythology based on the tales and musics of many sorts of siren. This collection does not attempt to be comprehensive ...
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... listening to them) with action (by sailing on). Eustathius then o√ers alternative treatments: Others, more concerned with a factual basis, supposed that the Sirens were lyre-playing harlots who deprived passers-by of their travel goods ...
... listening to them) with action (by sailing on). Eustathius then o√ers alternative treatments: Others, more concerned with a factual basis, supposed that the Sirens were lyre-playing harlots who deprived passers-by of their travel goods ...
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... listen to their singing; they devour them and tear o√ their skin''). See n. 1254. 131. ''She does not always harm.'' On Bulifon see DBI 15:57–61. The Sirena fountain in Piazza Sannazzaro is in mermaid form. 132. The Faerie Queene 2.12 ...
... listen to their singing; they devour them and tear o√ their skin''). See n. 1254. 131. ''She does not always harm.'' On Bulifon see DBI 15:57–61. The Sirena fountain in Piazza Sannazzaro is in mermaid form. 132. The Faerie Queene 2.12 ...
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... listening. . . . [A]s the mist swirled and parted and joined and parted again in flying diaphanous banners, [Colin] could see the other men, still where they should be working, spellbound gray-blurred ghosts listening so intently that ...
... listening. . . . [A]s the mist swirled and parted and joined and parted again in flying diaphanous banners, [Colin] could see the other men, still where they should be working, spellbound gray-blurred ghosts listening so intently that ...
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... listen, to abandon themselves against rational judgment to the insubstantial pleasures of things heard. From ... listening to music has likewise been linked to subjective displacement, to personal decentering, and to an ecstatic ...
... listen, to abandon themselves against rational judgment to the insubstantial pleasures of things heard. From ... listening to music has likewise been linked to subjective displacement, to personal decentering, and to an ecstatic ...
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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