Choral, Public and Private Listener Responses to Hildegard Westerkamp's École Polytechnique

Hildegard Westerkamp's (1990) composition École Polytechnique is an artistic response to one of Canada's most profoundly disturbing mass murders, the 1989 slaying of fourteen women in Montreal, Quebec. Using the theoretical model, derived from Haraway, of the cyborg body, and analyzing the...

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Main Authors: Andra McCartney, Marta McCarthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Exeter 2012-01-01
Series:Music and Arts in Action
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Online Access:http://www.musicandartsinaction.net/index.php/maia/article/view/chorallistening