Music and death : interdisciplinary readings and perspectives
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Music and death : interdisciplinary readings and perspectives
(Emerald interdisciplinary connexions)
Emerald Publishing, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss, and yet death and dying are topics that are rarely discussed or analysed in the academic space, especially in combination with music studies. This edited collection examines several ways in which diverse music cultures and societies imagine, express and provide a means of coping with death, grief and remembrance.
Written from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including both personal essays and academic studies, the nine chapters are divided into three subsections focusing respectively on mourning, underground scenes, and performance. The authors speak to the multifarious and complex ways in which music accompanies, supplements, and complements aspects of death and dying, whether this is the death of a loved one, or a celebrity from popular culture.
The book cuts across disciplines such as musicology, death studies, funeral studies, cultural studies, media studies, celebrity studies, sociology, anthropology and theology, and includes perspectives from Australia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Table of Contents
- Section One. Music and Mourning Chapter 1. Funeral Music Between Heaven and Earth
- Janieke Bruin-Mollenhorst Chapter 2. On the Funeral and Bereavement Rituals Depicted in Folk Songs: 'The Folk Requiem' by Adam Strug and Kwadrofonik
- Marek Jezinski Chapter 3. The Posthumous Nephew: An Auto-ethnographic Exploration of Belated Mourning and Fresh Divinations
- Gary Levy Section Two. Underground Scenes, Alternative Music and Transformation Chapter 4. You're Nothing: Punk and Death
- David Gracon Chapter 5. Healing the Mother Wound: Metal Performance and Grief Management
- Nachthexe Chapter 6. Bienvenue au Canada: The Nonlanguage of Music and Dreams
- Brendan Dabkowski Section Three. Performing Death Chapter 7. The Vision of Death: Time and Temporality
- Silvia Mendonca Chapter 8. Music and Embodied Movement: Representations of Risk and Death in Contemporary Circus
- Jenny Game-Lopata Chapter 9. Mercury's Message to Go On With the Show
- Marie Josephine Bennett
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