Singing death : reflections on music and mortality / edited by Helen Dell and Helen Hickey.

Includes bibliographical references (page 193) and index.

Into the Profound Deep: Pulled by a Song / Samuel Curkpatrick -- 'Farewell Vain World, I'm Going Home': Negotiating Death in the Sacred Harp Tradition / Frances Miller -- Crossing Over, Returning Home: Expressions of Death as a Place in George Crumb's River of Life / Abigail Shupe -- Public Mourning, The Nation, and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings / Kip Pegley -- Swinging in Heaven, Boppin' in Hell: Jazz and Death / Walter van de Leur -- 'Sad and Solemn Requiems': Disaster Songs and Complicated Grief in the Aftermath of Nova Scotia Mining Disasters / Heather Sparling -- Moving between worlds: Death, the otherworld and traditional Irish song / Mary McLaughlin -- Dying for Love in trouv�aere song / Helen Dell -- To the Tune of "Queen Dido": The Spectropoetics of Early Modern English Balladry / Lindsay Ann Reid -- 'Break on through to the other side': Songs of Death in Supernatural Horror Films / Penny Spirou and Natalie Lewandowski -- 'And the Stars Spell out Your Name': The Funeral Music of Diana, Princess of Wales / Helen M. Hickey -- Barthes's Orphic Quest: music and mourning in Camera Lucida / Henriette Korthals Altes.