Disability and Music Performance

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This book provides a reading of the performing aspects of classical music in the context of the disabled body, conceptualising disability in music as valuable difference and diversity rather than as a deficit and an endpoint. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures; List of Music Examples; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Historical Intersections between Disability and Music Performance; Chapter 2. Ableism in the Socio-Musical Organisation; Chapter 3. Iconography of Performers with Disabilities; Chapter 4. The Visual Aspects of Disability in Piano Performance; Chapter 5. Overcoming Narratives and Piano Performance; Chapter 6. Ageing and Music Performance; Chapter 7. Disability Identity in Music Performance; Conclusion; Index