Musical Bodies - E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer

Musical instruments and their connection to the body as reflected in art, popular culture, and the human condition, from ancient ceremony to rock and roll Musical Bodies explores the overlapping worlds and blurred boundaries between bodies and instruments across 5,000 years of art and music history. Whether we are tapping, clapping, vocalizing, or whistling, our bodies are musical instruments, and, in return, many instruments derive their form and decoration from the human body. Acting as powerful... Zobrazit více