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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... souls, the song of the sirens has often been the most memorable aspect and principal locus of their tremendous power. In the words of a global favorite of today, an English playwright from the age of colonial expansion: . . . once I sat ...
... souls, the song of the sirens has often been the most memorable aspect and principal locus of their tremendous power. In the words of a global favorite of today, an English playwright from the age of colonial expansion: . . . once I sat ...
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... soul-seeking Little Mermaid, or a morbid rusalka, the sirens of this book often provide their creators with as much angst as desire, o√ering dreams of virgin-whores to make the men who market or consume them feel intensely alive ...
... soul-seeking Little Mermaid, or a morbid rusalka, the sirens of this book often provide their creators with as much angst as desire, o√ering dreams of virgin-whores to make the men who market or consume them feel intensely alive ...
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... soul is to be bound to the wood of the Cross with spiritual bonds lest he be moved by the enticements of sinful enjoyments and pervert the course of nature into the danger of delight.38 Sweet Music, Sweet Speech Notwithstanding all this ...
... soul is to be bound to the wood of the Cross with spiritual bonds lest he be moved by the enticements of sinful enjoyments and pervert the course of nature into the danger of delight.38 Sweet Music, Sweet Speech Notwithstanding all this ...
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... souls a love of the heavenly world, from which a faint echo reached us on earth that only the more refined soul perceived, prefers to make Plato call the Muses Sirens as uttering (eirousas) things divine in Homer,50 the ninth Muse being ...
... souls a love of the heavenly world, from which a faint echo reached us on earth that only the more refined soul perceived, prefers to make Plato call the Muses Sirens as uttering (eirousas) things divine in Homer,50 the ninth Muse being ...
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... soul-bird or ba (cf. Vermeule, Aspects of Death, 69). 19. Respectively, Palatine Anthology 7.491.3–4 = HE 2641–42 (Mnasalces), 7.710.1 = HE 1781 (Erinna?), both probably third century bce. They weep together with halcyon birds in Werner ...
... soul-bird or ba (cf. Vermeule, Aspects of Death, 69). 19. Respectively, Palatine Anthology 7.491.3–4 = HE 2641–42 (Mnasalces), 7.710.1 = HE 1781 (Erinna?), both probably third century bce. They weep together with halcyon birds in Werner ...
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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