Singing Death - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367231506 ISBN 13 : 9780367231507

Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This book engages with the question of how music expresses and responds to the profound existential disturbance that death and loss present to the living. Singing Death ranges across genres from medieval love song to twenty-first-century horror film music.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helen Dell is a Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Her main area of research is medieval song. Her PhD thesis was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2008 as Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song. A recent focus has been the nexus between music and death. Recent publications include 'Music Medievalism and the Harmony of the Spheres', Cambridge Companion to Medievalism, 2016; 'Haunting Music: Hearing the Voices of the Dead', Music and Mourning, Routledge, 2016, and 'The Medieval Voice', Since Lacan: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, 25, Karnac, 2016.

Helen M. Hickey is a researcher with the Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions and the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Her research encompasses medieval poetics, histories of early medicine, and material culture. She has publications on the inquisitions of insanity in medieval poetry, medical diagnosis in early modern England, and grass-roots medievalism in the Labor movement in Australian culture. Recent European research has focused on the cult of the relic of La sainte larme (the Holy Tear) in France and ophthalmological miracles. She is a member of the International Health Humanities Network.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367231506
• ISBN 13: 9780367231507
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Dell Helen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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