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Title Music and death : interdisciplinary readings and perspectives / edited by Marie Josephine Bennett (University of Winchester, UK) & David Gracon (Gonzaga University, USA)
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 121 pages)
Series Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions Ser
Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions Ser
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
Summary 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 popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2019)
Subject Funeral music.
Loss (Psychology)
Funeral services.
Music, Religious -- General.
Funeral music
Loss (Psychology)
Form Electronic book
Author Bennett, Marie Josephine, editor
Gracon, David, editor
ISBN 9781838679453
1838679456
9781838679477
1838679472
Other Titles Music & death : interdisciplinary readings & perspectives