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

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 in...

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