Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability

ISBN-13: 9780190871208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Joseph Straus

Recenzje

Joseph Straus makes a convincing argument for thinking of modernist musical works as relying on a disability aesthetic. Learned, comprehensive, and eclectic, this book makes a major contribution to music history and theory as well as to disability studies.

O autorze

Joseph N. Straus is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of numerous books and articles. His previous book, Extraordinary Measures (Oxford UP, 2011) established him as the leading figure in the study of music in relationship to disability. He is a former president of the Society for Music Theory.