Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya Canary Islands
Musicology/Women’s Studies Naroditskaya Austern and Austern “This powerful collection of essays presents a fascinating portrait of feminized musical power as embodied in the figure of the siren and her many sisters. MusIC OF THE Cutting across history, cultures, and disciplinary lines, these essays bring to- gether a vast literature on this mythical figure, who, like water, seems to flow effortlessly between the spaces of life and death, fantasy and certainty, music and silence. Reading this work reaffirms the notion that the combined power of women and their music is at once dangerous and enchanting.” —Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester M “Fascinating, provocative, erudite, and seductive, Music of the Sirens is sure to become an essential resource for anyone interested in cross-cultural figurations us of aural and/or sexual allure.” —Suzanne G. Cusick, New York University Whether referred to as mermaid, rusalka, or mami wata, the siren has inspired I music and its representations across the globe. This book, co-edited by a his- C Sirens torical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cul- O tural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across time and geography. F LINDA PHyllIS AusTern is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University. She has written extensively on issues TH concerning music in western European intellectual culture, concentrating on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Europe. Her previous books are Music, Sensation, and Sensuality (editor) and Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance.
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