Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music is the first book-length work to focus on the historical and theoretical issues of music as it relates to disability. It shows that music, like literature and the other arts, simultaneously reflects and constructs cultural attitudes toward disability. Acknowledgments vii Contributing Authors ix Foreword xiii 1 Introduction: Theorizing Disability in Music 1(10) NEIL LERNER AND JOSEPH N. STRAUS Part I Narrating Disability Musically 11(96) 2 Fever/Fragile/Fatigue: Music, AIDS, Present, and... 13(10) PAUL ATTINELLO 3 Of Bodies and Narratives: Musical Representations of Pain and Illness in HBO's W;t 23(18) MARIA CIZMIC 4 Female Subjectivity, Disability, and Musical Authorship in Krzysztof Kieglowski's Blue 41(16) KELLY GROSS 5 Dancing out of the Dark: How Music Refutes Disability Stereotypes in Dancer in the Dark 57(18) JENNIFER IVERSON 6 The Horrors of One-Handed Pianism: Music and Disability in The Beast with Five Fingers 75(16) NEIL LERNER 7 Stuttering in American Popular Song, 1890-1930 91(18) DANIEL GOLDMARK Part II Performing Disability Musically 107(78) 8 Learning to Hear Autistically 109(12) DAVE HEADLAM 9 Glenn Gould, Autistic Savant 121(16) S. TIMOTHY MALONEY 10 Using a Music-Theoretical Approach to Explore the Impact of Disability on Musical Development: A Case Study 137(20) ADAM OCKELFORD 11 Melisma as Malady: Cavalli's Il Giasone (1649) and Opera's Earliest Stuttering Role 157(16) ANDREW OSTER 12 The Organ of the Soul: Voice, Damage, and Affect 173(14) LAURIE STRAS Part II Composing Disability Musically 185(84) 13 Les chansons des fous: On the Edge of Madness with Alkan 187(12) L. POUNDIE BURSTEIN 14 Finding Autism in the Compositions of a 19th-Century Prodigy: Reconsidering "Blind Tom" Wiggins 199(18) STEPHANIE JENSEN-MOULTON 15 Beyond Abnormality Dis/ability and Music's Metamorphic Subjectivities 217(18) MARIANNE KIELIAN-GILBERT 16 Mental Illness and Musical Metaphor in the First Movement of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique 235(22) STEPHEN RODGERS 17 Inversional Balance and the "Normal" Body in the Music of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern 257(12) JOSEPH N. STRAUS References 269(18) Index 287