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Extraordinary Measures : Disability in Music by Joseph Nathan Straus is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.
What is Extraordinary Measures : Disability in Music about?
Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. For composers with disabilities—like Beethoven, Delius, and Schumann—awareness of the disability sharply inflects critical reception. For performers with disabilities—such as Itzhak Perlman and Evelyn Glennie—the performa
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- Author
- Joseph Nathan Straus
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199766468
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Music, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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