The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music
Title:
The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music
Author:
Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- author.
ISBN:
9780822372646
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages).
Series:
Refiguring American music
Refiguring American music.
Contents:
Formal and informal pedagogies : believing in race, teaching race, hearing race -- Phantom genealogy : sonic Blackness and the American operatic timbre -- Familiarity as strangeness : Jimmy Scott and the question of Black timbral masculinity -- Race as zeros and ones : Vocaloid refused, reimagined, and repurposed -- Bifurcated listening : the inimitable, imitated Billie Holiday -- Widening rings of being : the singer as stylist and technician.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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