Phantom Limbs: On Musical Bodies

by Peter Szendy

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The prostheses Peter Szendy explores-those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments-are not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung.The musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound is called into question here. In Szendy's hands, its respectable corpus of scholarship is read aslant, so as to tease out what it usually prefers to hide: hybrids...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823267067

ISBN13:9780823267064

Release Date:November 2015

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Music Philosophy

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