Table of Contents

Introduction: Disability Studies in Music; Music in Disability Studies
Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus

Part 1. Disability Communities
1. Toward an Ethnographic Model of Disability in the Ethnomusicology of Autism
Michael B. Bakan
2. Music, Intellectual Disability, and Human Flourishing
Licia Carlson
3. Imagined Hearing: Music-Making in Deaf Culture
Jeannette DiBernardo Jones
4. Musical Expression among Deaf and Hearing Song Signers
Anabel Maler
5. The Politics of Sound: Music and Blindness in France, 1750-1830
Ingrid Sykes
6. "They Say We Exchanged Our Eyes for the Xylophone": Resisting Tropes of Disability as Spiritual Deviance in Birifor Music
Brian Hogan
7. Understanding is Seeing: Music Analysis and Blindness
Shersten Johnson

Part 2. Performing Disability
8. Mechanized Bodies: Technology and Supplements in Björk's Electronica
Jennifer Iverson
9. Subhuman or Superhuman? (Musical) Assistive Technology, Performance Enhancement, and the Aesthetic/Moral Debate
Laurie Stras
10. Disabling Music Performance
Blake Howe
11. Music and Bodily Difference in Cirque du Soleil
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
12. Punk Rock and Disability: Cripping Subculture
George McKay
13. Moving Experiences: Blindness and the Performing Self in Imré Ungár's Chopin
Stefan Sunandan Honisch
14. Stevie Wonder's Tactile Keyboard Mediation, Black Key Compositional Development, and the Quest for Creative Autonomy
Will Fulton
15. Oh, the Stories We Tell! Performer-Audience-Disability
Michael Beckerman
16. The Dancing Ground: Embodied Knowledge, Disability, and Visibility in New Orleans Second Lines
Daniella Santoro

Part 3. Race, Gender, Sexuality
17. A Cannon-Shaped Man with an Amphibian Voice: Castrato and Disability in Eighteenth-Century France
Hedy Law
18. Sexuality, Trauma, and Dissociated Expression
Fred Everett Maus
19. That "Weird and Wonderful Posture": Jump "Jim Crow" and the Performance of Disability
Sean Murray
20. Disabled Moves: Multi-dimensional Music Listening, Disturbing/Activating Differences of Identity
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert

Part 4. War and Trauma
21. Disabled Union Veterans and the Performance of Martial Begging
Michael Accinno
22. "Goodbye, Old Arm": The Domestication of Veterans' Disabilities in Civil War-Era Popular Songs
Devin Burke
23. "The Absurd Disordering of Notes": Dysfunctional Memory in the Post-Traumatic Music of Ivor Gurney
Beth Keyes
24. Vocal Ability and Musical Performances of Nuclear Damages in the Marshall Islands
Jessica Schwartz

Part 5. Premodern Conceptions
25. Lyrical Humor(s) in the 'Fumeur' Songs
Julie Singer
26. Difference, Disability, and Composition in the Late Middle Ages:
Of Antonio "Zachara" da Teramo and Francesco "Il Cieco" da Firenze
Michael Scott Cuthbert
27. Madness and Music as (Dis)ability in Early Modern England
Samantha Bassler
28. Saul, David, and Music's Ideal Body
Blake Howe

Part 6. The Classical Tradition
29. Narratives of Affliction and Recovery in Haydn
Floyd Grave
30. Music and the Labyrinth of Melancholy
Elaine Sisman
31. Musical Prosthesis: Form, Expression, and Narrative Structure in Beethoven's Sonata Movements
Bruce Quaglia
32. Sounds of Mind: Musicians and Madness in the Popular Imagination
James Deaville

Part 7. Modernism and After
33. Modernist Opera's Stigmatized Subjects
Sherry Lee
34. Autism and Postwar Serialism as Neurodiverse Forms of Cultural Modernism
Joseph Straus
35. Broken Facture: Representations of Disability in the Music of Allan Pettersson
Allen Gimbel
36. Musical Modernism's Aesthetics of Disability
Joseph Straus
37. "Defamiliarizing the Familiar": Michael Nyman, Narrative Medicine, and the Composition of Mental Blindness
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton

Part 8. Film and Musical Theater
38. Scene in a New Light: Monstrous Mothers, Disabled Daughters, and the Performance of Feminism and Disability in The Light in the Piazza (2005) and Next to Normal (2008)
Ann M. Fox
39. "Pitiful Creature of Darkness": The Subhuman and the Superhuman in The Phantom of the Opera
Jessica Sternfeld
40. "Waitin' for the Light to Shine": Musicals and Disability
Raymond Knapp
41. Music for Richard III: Cinematic Scoring for the Early Modern Monstrous
Kendra Preston Leonard
42. Hearing a Site of Masculinity in Franz Waxman's Score for Pride of the Marines (1945)
Neil Lerner

About the Author

Blake Howe is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Louisiana State University.

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton is Associate Professor of Musicology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Neil Lerner is E. Craig Wall, Jr. Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Music at Davidson College.

Joseph Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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