Les Paul at 91
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Les Paul, musicians with disabilities, aging
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Guitar legend Les Paul continues to perform to enthusiastic audiences as a nonagenarian whose age and impairments impact his playing technique. This essay describes the exemplary sociocultural relations that permit Paul, a person with disabilities largely a function of advanced age, to continue his career as a productive, respected, and affectionately esteemed member of a community.
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Alex Lubet, Morse Alumni/Graduate & Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, American Studies, and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota
Alex Lubet, Associate Editor of RDS and co-editor of this special forum on disability and music, is Morse Alumni/Graduate & Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, American Studies, and Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. A composer, multi-instrumentalist, theatre artist, and author, he has been called the “dean of the field” of disability studies in music. His writings on music and disability have appeared/will appear in RDS, Disability Studies Quarterly, Encyclopedia of Disability (Sage), Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan from Minnesota to the World (University of Minnesota Press), and Richard Wagner for the New Millennium: Essays in Music and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan), edited by Lubet, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, and Gottfried Wagner.