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Drawing upon the author's recent interdisciplinary practice-led research ‘Woman=Music=Desire’ (2010) and adopting a choreographic approach to the re-appropriation of musical gesture, the author explores how the risk for failure contributes to live musical experience. A short excerpt of the case study ‘Woman=Music=Desire’ may be viewed at: http://www.imogene-newland.co.uk/perf_women_md.php
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This article demonstrates the practice-led application of key philosophical concerns within new musicology and how such an approach may deepen understandings of the important role of the body in music performance.
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This page is a summary of: Embodying Failure: Music Performance, Risk and Authenticity, Somatechnics, March 2013, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/soma.2013.0080.
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