Music and death : interdisciplinary readings and perspectives

Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss. This edited collection speaks to the multifarious and complex ways in which music accompanies, supplements, and complements aspects of death and dying, whether this is the death of a loved one, or a celebrity from popula...

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Other Authors Bennett, Marie Josephine (Editor), Gracon, David (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
SeriesEmerald interdisciplinary connexions
Subjects
Funeral music.
Loss (Psychology)
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781838679453
9781838679477
DOI10.1108/9781838679453
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 121 pages) ; cm.

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction: Exploring Connections between Music and Death
  • Section One: Music and Mourning
  • Chapter 1: Funeral Music between Heaven and Earth
  • Chapter 2: On the Funeral and Bereavement Rituals Depicted in Folk Songs: The Folk Requiem by Adam Strug and Kwadrofonik
  • Chapter 3: The Posthumous Nephew: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Belated Mourning and Fresh Divinations
  • Section Two: Underground Scenes, Alternative Music and Transformation
  • Chapter 4: Youre Nothing: Punk and Death
  • Chapter 5: Healing the Mother Wound: Metal Performance and Grief Management
  • Chapter 6: Bienvenue au Canada: The Nonlanguage of Music and Dreams
  • Section Three: Performing Death
  • Chapter 7: The Vision of Death: Time and Temporality
  • Chapter 8: Music and Embodied Movement: Representations of Risk and Death in Contemporary Circus
  • Chapter 9: Mercurys Message to Go On with the Show
  • Index.

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