Forum Introduction: To Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky with One Hand: Writings in Disability and Music

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Alex Lubet
Morse Alumni/Graduate & Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, American Studies, and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota

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disability writing, disability music, disability culture

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Forum Introduction:  Music Beyond Norms

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November 28, 2014

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Vol. 4 No. 1
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Author Biography

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.