The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, mobility impairment often coupled with bodily difference, and cognitive and intellectual impairments. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments. First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity.

Introduction: Disability Studies in Music; Music in Disability StudiesBlake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, Joseph StrausPart 1. Disability Communities1. Toward an Ethnographic Model of Disability in the Ethnomusicology of AutismMichael B. Bakan2. Music, Intellectual Disability, and Human FlourishingLicia Carlson3. Imagined Hearing: Music-Making in Deaf CultureJeannette DiBernardo Jones4. Musical Expression among Deaf and Hearing Song SignersAnabel Maler5. The Politics of Sound: Music and Blindness in France, 1750-1830Ingrid Sykes6. "They Say We Exchanged Our Eyes for the Xylophone": Resisting Tropes of Disability as Spiritual Deviance in Birifor MusicBrian Hogan7. Understanding is Seeing: Music Analysis and BlindnessShersten JohnsonPart 2. Performing Disability8. Mechanized Bodies: Technology and Supplements in Bj?rk's ElectronicaJennifer Iverson9. Subhuman or Superhuman? (Musical) Assistive Technology, Performance Enhancement, and the Aesthetic/Moral DebateLaurie Stras10. Disabling Music PerformanceBlake Howe11. Music and Bodily Difference in Cirque du SoleilStephanie Jensen-Moulton12. Punk Rock and Disability: Cripping SubcultureGeorge McKay13. Moving Experiences: Blindness and the Performing Self in Imr? Ung?r's ChopinStefan Sunandan Honisch14. Stevie Wonder's Tactile Keyboard Mediation, Black Key Compositional Development, and the Quest for Creative AutonomyWill Fulton15. Oh, the Stories We Tell! Performer-Audience-DisabilityMichael Beckerman16. The Dancing Ground: Embodied Knowledge, Disability, and Visibility in New Orleans Second LinesDaniella SantoroPart 3. Race, Gender, Sexuality17. A Cannon-Shaped Man with an Amphibian Voice: Castrato and Disability in Eighteenth-Century FranceHedy Law18. Sexuality, Trauma, and Dissociated ExpressionFred Everett Maus19. That "Weird and Wonderful Posture": Jump "Jim Crow" and the Performance of DisabilitySean Murray20. Disabled Moves: Multi-dimensional Music Listening, Disturbing/Activating Differences of IdentityMarianne Kielian-GilbertPart 4. War and Trauma21. Disabled Union Veterans and the Performance of Martial BeggingMichael Accinno22. "Goodbye, Old Arm": The Domestication of Veterans' Disabilities in Civil War-Era Popular SongsDevin Burke23. "The Absurd Disordering of Notes": Dysfunctional Memory in the Post-Traumatic Music of Ivor GurneyBeth Keyes24. Vocal Ability and Musical Performances of Nuclear Damages in the Marshall IslandsJessica SchwartzPart 5. Premodern Conceptions25. Lyrical Humor(s) in the 'Fumeur' SongsJulie Singer26. Difference, Disability, and Composition in the Late Middle Ages:Of Antonio "Zachara" da Teramo and Francesco "Il Cieco" da FirenzeMichael Scott Cuthbert27. Madness and Music as (Dis)ability in Early Modern EnglandSamantha Bassler28. Saul, David, and Music's Ideal BodyBlake HowePart 6. The Classical Tradition29. Narratives of Affliction and Recovery in HaydnFloyd Grave30. Music and the Labyrinth of MelancholyElaine Sisman31. Musical Prosthesis: Form, Expression, and Narrative Structure in Beethoven's Sonata MovementsBruce Quaglia32. Sounds of Mind: Musicians and Madness in the Popular ImaginationJames DeavillePart 7. Modernism and After33. Modernist Opera's Stigmatized SubjectsSherry Lee34. Autism and Postwar Serialism as Neurodiverse Forms of Cultural ModernismJoseph Straus35. Broken Facture: Representations of Disability in the Music of Allan PetterssonAllen Gimbel36. Musical Modernism's Aesthetics of DisabilityJoseph Straus37. "Defamiliarizing the Familiar": Michael Nyman, Narrative Medicine, and the Composition of Mental BlindnessStephanie Jensen-MoultonPart 8. Film and Musical Theater38. Scene in a New Light: Monstrous Mothers, Disabled Daughters, and the Performance of Feminism and Disability in The Light in the Piazza (2005) and Next to Normal (2008)Ann M. Fox39. "Pitiful Creature of Darkness": The Subhuman and the Superhuman in The Phantom of the OperaJessica Sternfeld40. "Waitin' for the Light to Shine": Musicals and DisabilityRaymond Knapp41. Music for Richard III: Cinematic Scoring for the Early Modern MonstrousKendra Preston Leonard42. Hearing a Site of Masculinity in Franz Waxman's Score for Pride of the Marines (1945)Neil Lerner