The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, mobility impairment often coupled with bodily difference, and cognitive and intellectual impairments. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments. First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-13
9780199331444
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217497835
Product Key Features
Author
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Joseph Straus, Neil Lerner, Blake Howe
Publication Name
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Disability
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
952 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
255mm
Item Width
178mm
Item Weight
1720g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Oxford Handbooks
Topic
Music
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Blake Howe, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton