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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