Embodying the Music and Death Nexus: Consolations, Salvations and Transformations

Embodied encounters with death have a profound impact on humans, and this edited collection explores how music provides a container and medium for experiencing, processing, and integrating these encounters. The collection showcases new and original interdisciplinary case studies from authors across Australia, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and the UK, taking an international, interdisciplinary, and inclusive approach. It reveals how music and human nature are intimately and bodily entwined, and provides a unique overview of the implications and ramifications of the embodiment of death through music and the musicalization of death through the body.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 17 August 2022
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Embodied encounters with death hold a profound impact on human beings, exerting a transformative force that can crush, transform, and strengthen individuals and relationships. Recognizing that these encounters frequently resonate with musical accompaniment, this edited collection presents a diverse range of critical, analytical, discursive, and personal reflections on how music serves as both a container and a medium for experiencing, processing, and integrating embodied encounters with death.

The collection showcases a collection of innovative and original interdisciplinary case studies authored by scholars from various countries across Australia, France, The Netherlands, Poland, and the UK. Adopting an international, interdisciplinary, and inclusive approach, this meticulously curated collection delves into embodied encounters with death through music across a wide range of practices and disciplines, including death and grief, queer studies, disability, philosophy, and more. By blending personal perspectives and insights on the impact of music and death alongside more conventional academic studies, the chapters unveil the intricate and bodily entwinement of music and human nature.

Framed by opening and closing chapters written by the team of three editors, this core text in the field offers a distinctive overview of the implications and ramifications of the embodiment of death through music and the musicalization of death through the body. It also serves as a guidepost for future research, pointing toward unexplored avenues and potential directions for inquiry.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 161 x 238 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801177672