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Informationen zum Autor Nina Sun Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Nina Sun Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice, also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung Examining singers Marian Anderson! Billie Holiday! and Jimmy Scott as well as vocal synthesis technology! Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which the voice and its qualities are socially produced and how listeners assign a series of racialized and gendered set of assumptions to a singing voice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Acousmatic Question: Who Is This? 1 1. Formal and Informal Pedagogies: Believing in Race, Teaching Race, Hearing Race 39 2. Phantom Genealogy: Sonic Blackness and the American Operatic Timbre 61 3. Familiarity as Strangeness: Jimmy Scott and the Question of Black Timbral Masculinity 91 4. Race as Zeros and Ones: Vocaloid Refused, Reimagined, and Repurposed 115 5. Bifurcated Listening: The Inimitable, Imitated Billie Holiday 151 6. Widening Rings of Being: The Singer as Stylist and Technician 177 Appendix 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 243 Index 259
