Music of the Sirens

Contents

• 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