Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya Courtesy of McGaw Licensing/ The McGaw Group, LLC. Reading this work reaffirms the notion that the combined power of women and their music is at once dangerous and enchanting.” -Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music/University of RochesterĬover image © Tim Ashkar. Cutting across history, cultures, and disciplinary lines, these essays bring together a vast literature on this mythical figure, who, like water, seems to flow effortlessly between the spaces of life and death, fantasy and certainty, music and silence. “This powerful collection of essays presents a fascinating portrait of feminized musical power as embodied in the figure of the siren and her many sisters. “Fascinating, provocative, erudite, and seductive, Music of the Sirens is sure to become an essential resource for anyone interested in cross-cultural figurations of aural and/or sexual allure.” -Suzanne G.
Her most recent book is Song from the Land of Fire: Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods. She specializes in music and culture in contemporary central Asia, in the former Soviet republics, and in imperial Russia. Inna Naroditskaya is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University. Her previous books are Music, Sensation, and Sensuality (editor) and Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance. She has written extensively on issues concerning music in western European intellectual culture, concentrating on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Europe. Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Northwestern University. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across time and geography. Let us pray that we will keep the tempo in the years to come and that laws will be enacted and enforced to arrest any lawlessness and disorderliness in the preservation of public health and hygiene living conditions.Whether referred to as mermaid, rusalka, or mami wata, the siren has inspired music and its representations across the globe. It is no coincidence but a turning point – the need for a new mindset, a cleaning revolution in our homes, places of work, on the road and public places for public safety.Ħ. It is now or never to deal with our attitude towards cleanliness and hygiene be it at home, at places of work, on the road, at gatherings etc. Reflecting on hygiene vis-à-vis cleanliness in our trading places, it took the crisis of cholera to induce a new mind set. When we think of Jesus, He suffered a tragic and humiliating death on the cross – that is what it takes God to undertake in order for us to turn back to Him.ĥ. The will of God is for us to turn back to Him. All that happens occur within the plan of God in the hands of God. So every challenge, disaster, tragedy, or crisis that happens it happens for a reason. However, the disease which was a crisis for him became a turning point in his life as he turned to the Lord for healing.Ĥ. Therefore, for the leper to approach Jesus for healing, it should have taken him a great deal, as he was an outcast. It meant a person was not only physically afflicted but also spiritually impoverished and would be permanently expelled and isolated from the community.ģ. To be afflicted with leprosy in the Jewish culture was a great tragedy. It was deemed as a turning point, an opportunity to awaken from slumber and spiritual decay and to turn back to God in repentance. In the Old Testament every misfortune, tragedy or defeat pointed to a problem or a crisis. It is our choice to place meaning on the events of our lives – either as a blessing or a curse.Ģ. God is always present with us, both in good and bad times. In spiritual terms, we would say – there is God’s plan and purpose for the events and situations that happen in life. You will come to appreciate that there are no coincidences. 1.When we think and reflect about life, we will come to realize that there is a purpose for all that happens in our lives.
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