The grotesque materiality of the musicians’ playing and their gin-drinking is as much a part of the fierce music’s bold “eccentricity” as the paradox of in/visibility. Heavenly’s “body swayed from side to side in time with the slow steady beat of the bass” (34), the man she ...
While also considering the materiality of the record, the strategy that I applied focused on the actors contributing to the emer- gence of the artifact as well as those involved in the procedure more generally and their roles and actions within the asylum procedure. Instead of focusing on the ...