Disability and Music Performance

ISBN-13: 9781138089150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 182 str.

Alejandro Alberto Taellez Vargas

Opis

This book provides a reading of the performing aspects of classical music in the context of the disabled body, conceptualising disability in music as valuable difference and diversity rather than as a deficit and an endpoint.

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Music Examples; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Historical Intersections between Disability and Music Performance; Chapter 2. Ableism in the Socio-Musical Organisation; Chapter 3. Iconography of Performers with Disabilities; Chapter 4. The Visual Aspects of Disability in Piano Performance; Chapter 5. Overcoming Narratives and Piano Performance; Chapter 6. Ageing and Music Performance; Chapter 7. Disability Identity in Music Performance; Conclusion; Index

O autorze

Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas completed his PhD in 2016 as an Endeavour Postgraduate Award Holder (University of Melbourne). In 2008, he received a Fulbright Fellowship for International Postgraduate Studies at the United States of America, where he studied a master’s degree in music performance with a related field of studies in music and medicine at the University of North Texas (UNT). Currently, he works at the Department of Education and Training of the Victorian Government, Australia.