{"product_id":"phantom-limbs-peter-szendy-9780823267064","title":"Phantom Limbs: On Musical Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe prostheses Peter Szendy explores--those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments--are not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound is called into question here. In Szendy's hands, its respectable corpus of scholarship is read aslant, so as to tease out what it usually prefers to hide: hybrids and grafts produced by active fictions, monsters, and chimera awaiting the opportunity to be embodied. Beyond these singular bodies that music composes and disposes there lies the figure of a collective \"social\" body ready to emerge amid an innervated apparatus that operates at a distance, telepathically. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhantom Limbs touches on bodies of all shapes and sizes that haunt the edges of music's conceptualizations. Music continually reinvents such bodies and reconvenes them in new collective formations. It is their dynamics and crystallizations that Szendy auscultates on a motley corpus that includes Bach, Diderot, Berlioz, Eisenstein, Disney, and Monk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Szendy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823267067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823267064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Peter Szendy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49082580205823,"sku":"9780823267064","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/phantom-limbs-peter-szendy-9780823267064","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}