{"product_id":"sounding-off-neil-lerner-9780415979078","title":"Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eDisability, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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. \u003cem\u003eSounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music\u003c\/em\u003e promises to be a landmark study for scholars and students of music, disability, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Lerner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415979072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415979078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.34w x 0.65d","brand":"Neil Lerner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086677061887,"sku":"9780415979078","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7cffff12-cf7b-45ad-8f88-8284a59f6a12.jpg?v=1769095971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sounding-off-neil-lerner-9780415979078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}