Tunes of Impairment: An Ethnomusicology of Disability

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Title:	Tunes of Impairment: An Ethnomusicology of Disability
Authors:	Lubet, Alex
Keywords:	music disability classical
Date Issued:	2004
Publisher:	University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies
Citation:	Lubet, A. (2004). Tunes of Impairment: An Ethnomusicology of Disability. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 1(1).
Series:	vol. 1, no. 1
Abstract:	Tunes of Impairment: An Ethnomusicology of Disability contemplates the theory and methodology of disability studies in music, a sub-field currently in only its earliest phase of development. The article employs as its test case the field of Western art ("classical") music and examines the reasons for the near total exclusion from training and participation in music performance and composition by people with disabilities. Among the issues around which the case is built are left-handedness as a disability; gender construction in classical music and its interface with disability; canon formation, the classical notion of artistic perfection and its analogy to the flawless (unimpaired) body; and technological and organizational accommodations in music-making present and future.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/58145
ISSN:	1552-9215
Appears in Collections:	RDS Volume 1, No. 1

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