{"product_id":"broken-beauty-musical-modernism-and-the-representation-of-disability-9780190871208","title":"Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability","description":"Preeminent music theorist and leader in the study of music and disability Joseph Straus presents a truly groundbreaking take on musical modernism--demonstrating in an expansive and vivid multimedia presentation that modernist music is inextricably entwined with attitudes toward disability. In\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroken Beauty, \u003c\/em\u003e Straus argues that the most characteristic features of musical modernism--fractured forms, immobilized harmonies, conflicting textural layers, radical simplification of means in some cases, and radical complexity and hermeticism in others--can be understood as musical depictions of\u003cbr\u003edisability conditions, including deformity\/disfigurement, mobility impairment, madness, idiocy, and autism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst the traditional medical model of disability, which sees it as a bodily defect requiring diagnosis and normalization or cure, this new sociocultural model of disability sees it as cultural artifact, something that is created by and creates culture. Straus places this revised model of\u003cbr\u003edisability against a wide range of canonical, high-art concert music from the first decades of the century through the 1950s. \u003cem\u003eBroken Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates how disability is right at the core of musical modernism; it is one of the things that musical modernism is fundamentally about.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph N. Straus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190871208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph N. Straus \u003c\/strong\u003eis Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of numerous books and articles. His previous book, \u003cem\u003eExtraordinary Measures \u003c\/em\u003e(Oxford UP, 2011) established him as the leading figure in the study of music in relationship to disability. He is a former president of the Society for Music Theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929222824051,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5ce1b0f1-e273-41b3-bd50-a993e54ee35f.jpg?v=1647611925","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/broken-beauty-musical-modernism-and-the-representation-of-disability-9780190871208","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}