Corpo-Realities: Keepin’ It Real in “Music and Embodiment” Scholarship

In 1980, Abbie Conant, a white American trombonist living in Germany, won the solo trombone chair of the Munich Philharmonic, beating out thirty-two other candidates, all male. Invited to the audition via a letter addressed to Herr Abbie Conant, the trombonist achieved this success as a disembodied...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tracy McMullen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2006-09-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5080