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Piano Decompositions: Author Biographies

Piano Decompositions
Author Biographies

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Toward a History of Decomposing Pianos
  10. 2. Piano as Medium, Material, and Representation
  11. 3. Destruction, Decay, and Entangled Bodies
  12. 4. Media and Material Transformations
  13. 5. From Damage to Salvage: Instruments for Listening
  14. Coda: Re-membering
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Author Biographies

Author Biographies

Heidi Hart is arts researcher, curator, and guest instructor at Linnaeus University (Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies). Her books include Hanns Eisler’s Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty and Climate Thanatology: Companioning What Remains.

Beate Schirrmacher is associate professor in comparative literature in the Department of Film and Literature at Linnaeus University and a member of the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. She is coeditor of Truth Claims Across Media and Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning Across Media.

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