Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music
Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music by Neil Lerner, published by Routledge on September 28, 2006, is a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between music and disability. This 312-page work delves into the cultural significance of disability, understood as a socially constructed aspect of human experience. Lerner addresses the lack of discourse in musicology regarding disability, positioning this book as a pioneering effort to examine how music reflects and shapes societal attitudes toward bodily differences.
Readers will find an interdisciplinary approach that situates music within the broader context of Disability Studies, emphasizing the importance of understanding the social and cultural meanings attached to disability. The book discusses how music, similar to other art forms, plays a crucial role in both mirroring and influencing perceptions of disability. By engaging with topics such as music performance and the philosophy of music, this edition serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in the intricate relationships between music, culture, and disability.
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Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach to bodily difference is the proper study of humanists. The interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies has recently emerged to theorize social and cultural constructions of the meaning of disability.
Although there has been an astonishing outpouring of humanistic work in Disability Studies in the past ten years, there has been virtually no echo in musicology or music theory. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music is the first book-length work to focus on the historical and theoretical issues of music as it relates to disability. It shows that music, like literature and the other arts, simultaneously reflects and constructs cultural attitudes toward disability.
Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music promises to be a landmark study for scholars and students of music, disability, and culture.
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