Great Woman Singer - Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

Informationen zum Autor Licia Fiol-Matta Klappentext Licia Fiol-Matta teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. She is¿the author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral. Zusammenfassung Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault! Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices! performance style! physical appearance! and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. I Am Nothing  1 1. Getting Off . . . the Nation  16 2. So What If She's Black?  67 3. Techne and the Lady  121 4. The Thinking Voice  172 Epilogue. Nothing Is Something  226 Notes  233 Bibliography  269 Index  279

Product details

• Authors: Licia Fiol-Matta
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780822362821
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6282-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous