SIRENS
Welcome to the SIRENS website.
In this space, you can explore textual and auditory content to understand the body and mind in history through music.
The SIRENS are liminal beings. Between the animal and the human. Between the material body and the imagination. They are also representations of female sexuality, and the power of music to trigger emotions and behaviors. On this website, we explore the role of music in these liminal spaces.
Music has often played a crucial role in understanding the body, mind and emotions, in both animals and humans. Music also allows us to explore the ways in which knowledge circulates in an embodied way, and how it defines sexual and cultural identities and subjectivities, etc. In addition to the supposed potential of siren song to bewitch unsuspecting sailors, we could also discuss music’s alleged ability to alleviate ailments or, conversely, to cause illness…
You can find all this if you search on this page...
This project has been co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation; RYC2021-031850-I / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033. And by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR.
