Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality

By Helen Hickey

Book Overview

This book engages with the question of how music expresses and responds to the profound existential disturbance that death and loss present to the living. Singing Death ranges across genres from medieval love song to twenty-first-century horror film music.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367231506
• ISBN13: 9780367231507
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"