Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music

by Joseph N. Straus

Book Overview

Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. For composers with disabilities--like Beethoven, Delius, and Schumann--awareness of the disability sharply inflects critical reception. For performers with disabilities--such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199766460
• ISBN13: 9780199766468
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"