Phantom Limbs : : On Musical Bodies / / Peter Szendy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Szendy, Peter,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bishop, Will.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

The 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.The 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.Phantom 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Training -- Chapter 1 Interpreting Bodies -- Chapter 2 Effictions -- Chapter 3 Organologics (1): The Erasure of Bodies -- Chapter 4 Touch-ups, or The Return of Bodies -- Chapter 5 Idiotisms, or The Dialect of Bodies -- Chapter 6 Monk, a Legend -- Chapter 7 Traces of Fingers -- Chapter 8 Digital Rhetoric -- Chapter 9 Ablations and Grafts (Too Many Fingers) -- Chapter 10 Romantic Fingers (System of Touch) -- Chapter 11 Feet -- Chapter 12 Joyful Tropiques (Evolution, Revolutions) -- Chapter 13 Two Dispatches (One Fictive and the Other Dreamed Up) -- Chapter 14 Organologics (2): Autophony -- Chapter 15 Genesis (1): Ocular Harpsichord, Organ of Flavors -- Chapter 16 Telepathy -- Chapter 17 Scruples (Clones and Stand-ins) -- Chapter 18 Conducting (Seen from the Back) -- Chapter 19 Genesis (2): Fantasia, or "Plasmaticity" -- Chapter 20 Touching from Afar -- Chapter 21 Organologics (3): Areality -- Chapter 22 Bodies Electric -- Chapter 23 Mass Formations -- P.S. -- Notes