Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference
(including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a
pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the
biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and
medicine, the meaning that we attach to bodily difference is the
proper study of humanists. The interdisciplinary field of
Disability Studies has recently emerged to theorize social and
cultural constructions of the meaning of disability. Although there
has been an astonishing outpouring of humanistic work in Disability
Studies in the past ten years, there has been virtually no echo in
musicology or music theory. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in
Music is the first book-length work to focus on the historical and
theoretical issues of music as it relates to disability. It shows
that music, like literature and the other arts, simultaneously
reflects and constructs cultural attitudes toward disability.
Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music promises to be a
landmark study for scholars and students of music, disability, and
culture.
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