ABSTRACT
Divided into three sections, Linda Phyllis Austern collects eighteen, cross-disciplinary essays written by some of the most important names in the field to look at this stimulating topic. The first section focuses on the cultural and scientific ways in which music and the sense of hearing work directly on the mind and body. Part Two investigates how music works on the socially constructed, representational or sexualized body as a means of healing, beautifying and maintaining a balance between the mental and physical. Finally, the book explores the action of music as it is heard and sensed by wider social units, such as the body politic, mass communication, from print to sound recording, and broadcast technologies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |60 pages
Minding Affect
chapter 2|18 pages
Bemetzrieder's Dream
chapter 3|18 pages
“Little Pearl Teardrops”
part |89 pages
Sensual Transgressions
chapter 7|27 pages
Heroism Undone
part |46 pages
Transcendence
chapter 9|17 pages
Between Life and Death
part |53 pages
Video (I See)
chapter 13|19 pages
Musical Instruments, Glass Cases, and Headsets
part |53 pages
Representation Touching Hearing
chapter 15|14 pages
Pastoral Pleasures, Sensual Sounds
chapter 16|19 pages
The Signifying Serpent
part |24 pages
Noise and Science