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Music of the sirens

The siren is a remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book 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
eBook, English, ©2006
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2006
1 online resource (vii, 423 pages) : illustrations, music
9780253112071, 9781282072886, 9780253218469, 9780253347367, 9786612072888, 0253112079, 1282072889, 025334736X, 0253218462, 6612072881
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Introduction : singing each to each / Inna Naroditskaya and Linda Phyllis Austern
Sirens in antiquity and the middle ages / Leofranc Holford-Strevens
"Teach me to heare mermaides singing" : embodiments of (acoustic) pleasure and danger in the modern West / Linda Phyllis Austern
Devils, daydreams, and desire : siren traditions and musical creation in the Central-Southern Andes / Henry Stobart
"Sweet aluring harmony" : heavenly and earthly sirens in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and visual culture / Elena Laura Calogero
The sirens, the epicurean boat, and the poetry of praise / Stephen M. Buhler
"Longindyingcall" : of music, modernity, and the sirens / Lawrence Kramer
Russian rusalkas and nationalism : water, power, and women / Inna Naroditskaya
Rheinsirenen : Loreley and other Rhine maidens / Annegret Fauser
The mermaid of the Meyhane : the legend of a Greek singer in a Turkish tavern / John Morgan O'Connell
Siren serenades : music for Mami Wata and other water spirits in Africa / Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk
The navel, the corporate, the contradictory : pop sirens at the twenty-first century / Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong
The cocktail siren in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Jeongwon Joe
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