“This powerful collection of essays presents a fascinating portrait of feminized musical power as embodied in the figure of the siren and her many sisters. “Fascinating, provocative, erudite, and seductive, Music of the Sirens is sure to become an essential resource for anyone interested in cross-cultural figurations of aural and/or sexual allure.” -Suzanne G. Her most recent book is Song from the Land of Fire: Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods. She specializes in music and culture in contemporary central Asia, in the former Soviet republics, and in imperial Russia. Inna Naroditskaya is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University. Her previous books are Music, Sensation, and Sensuality (editor) and Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance. She has written extensively on issues concerning music in western European intellectual culture, concentrating on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Europe. Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across time and geography. Whether referred to as mermaid, rusalka, or mami wata, the siren has inspired music and its representations across the globe.
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