Journal article
Music and Deafness in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Imagination
Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol.16(2), pp.184-205
04/11/2022
DOI: 10.1017/S1752196322000050
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Abstract
This article argues that deaf musical knowledge became epistemically excluded from systems of musical thought in the United States as the result of a battle between two competing philosophies of deaf education in the nineteenth century: manualism and oralism. It reveals how oralist educators explicitly framed music as exclusively involving "normal hearing" -and thus as outside of deaf knowledge except through technological intervention-by drawing on ideas about eugenics, race, and authenticity. Ideas about morality and technology also colored views of deaf musicality in the United States, shaping the reception of deaf music-making throughout the twentieth century until today. This article tells the story of how deaf music-making came to be forgotten and discovered, again and again, in the U.S. consciousness. By way of conclusion, I suggest that in order to address the epistemic exclusion of deaf musical 'mowers, we must carefully attend to what deaf epistemologies bring to music studies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Music and Deafness in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Imagination
- Creators
- Anabel Maler - Univ Iowa, Sch Mus, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol.16(2), pp.184-205
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1752196322000050
- ISSN
- 1752-1963
- eISSN
- 1752-1971
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 22
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/11/2022
- Academic Unit
- School of Music
- Record Identifier
- 9984244594402771
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