Acknowledgments
Introduction: Singing Each to Each Inna Naroditskaya and Linda
Phyllis Austern
1. Sirens in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Leofranc
Holford-Strevens
2. "Teach Me to Heare Mermaides Singinge": Embodiments of
(Acoustic) Pleasure and Danger in the Modern West Linda Phyllis
Austern
3. Devils, Daydreams, and Desire: Siren Traditions and Musical
Creation in the Central-Southern Andes Henry Stobart
4. "Sweet aluring harmony": Heavenly and Earthly Sirens in
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literary and Visual Culture
Elena Laura Calogero
5. The Sirens, the Epicurean Boat, and the Poetry of Praise Stephen
M. Buhler
6. "Longindyingcall": Of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens Lawrence
Kramer
7. Russian Rusalkas and Nationalism: Water, Power, and Women Inna
Naroditskaya
8. Rheinsirenen: Loreley and Other Rhine Maidens Annegret
Fauser
9. The Mermaid of the Meyhane: The Legend of a Greek Singer in a
Turkish Tavern John Morgan O'Connell
10. Siren Serenades: Music for Mami Wata and Other Water Spirits in
Africa Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk
11. The Navel, the Corporate, the Contradictory: Pop Sirens at the
Twenty-first Century Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong
12. The Cocktail Siren in David Lynch's Blue Velvet Jeongwon
Joe
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
An impressive range of views and analyses of the pervasive archetype of sirens and their music
Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University.
Inna Naroditskaya is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University.
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