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The prostheses Peter Szendy explores―those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments―are not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung.

The musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound is called into question here. In Szendy’s hands, its respectable corpus of scholarship is read aslant, so as to tease out what it usually prefers to hide: hybrids and grafts produced by active fictions, monsters, and chimera awaiting the opportunity to be embodied. Beyond these singular bodies that music composes and disposes there lies the figure of a collective “social” body ready to emerge amid an innervated apparatus that operates at a distance, telepathically.

Phantom Limbs touches on bodies of all shapes and sizes that haunt the edges of music’s conceptualizations. Music continually reinvents such bodies and reconvenes them in new collective formations. It is their dynamics and crystallizations that Szendy auscultates on a motley corpus that includes Bach, Diderot, Berlioz, Eisenstein, Disney, and Monk.

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The first truly comprehensive critique of organology―the study of musical instruments as related to the human body. A smart, lucid and original study, translated superbly by Will Bishop. Author: ―Richard A. Rand Source: Professor of English Emeritus, University of Alabama

“A patient meditation on the musical body. Szendy provides a stunning reading of
the digital history of the finger, or ‘digit.’ We witness the multiplication of digits, the multiplication of hands and fingers, the regulation of bodies in the hope of having as many fingers as we need to play on the keyboard. But there is more to musical bodies; there are the virtual bodies of instruments who would play without contact of touch, repeating the motion of music that touches us through the ether, and there is the body of a conductor, who governs the body politic that is the orchestra. This is a compelling study.”

Author: ―Gil Anidjar Source: Columbia University

“A very original discussion of the production of the body through music. Szendy takes up a variety of musical practices in their fascinating and little-known history.” Author: ―Susan Bernstein Source: Brown University

Throughout the book, Szendy invite us to take literally various metaphorical descriptions of musical bodies and their effects. These playful reversals have the potential to open up bold new horizons for thinking about musical performance and musicians' bodies... One may be tempted to read Phantom Limbs for its provocative collisions and dissipating resonances alone―to marvel at at Szendy's eclectic examples and to enjoy the rhythm of his prose. Author: Naomi Waltham-Smith Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
About the Author:
Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience and All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage.

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  • PublisherFordham University Press
  • Publication date2015
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  • ISBN 13 9780823267064
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