James Deaville
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Keywords: music, disability, madness, muteness, eugenics
Research Interests
James Deaville teaches in the Music area of the School for Studies in Art and Culture. His research has focused on (among other topics) the intersections of music and disability, especially in screen representations of madness and muteness. By studying such audiovisual mediations of disability, he has been able to trace the lasting influence of eugenics in current film and television. He is currently in the second year of a four-year SSHRC Insight Grant “Sounds of Body: Muteness, Music, and Eugenics in Screen Representation.
Selected Publications
“The moaning of (un-)life: Animacy, muteness and eugenics in cinematic and televisual representation,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 4, no. 2 (2019): 225-46.
“Sounds of Mind: Music and Madness in the Popular Imagination,” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, ed. by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 640-660.
“More Than the Blues: Clinical Depression, Invisible Disabilities and Academe,” Music Theory Online 15, nos. 3-4 (August, 2009), at: http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.09.15.3/mto.09.15.3.deaville.html
In preparation: “Hearing the ‘American Nightmare’: Deafness, Madness, and Jazz in It’s A Wonderful Life.”