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An exploration of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity,
Multivocality focuses on transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, religious contexts, and found voices and lost ones.
List of contents
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Finding a Voice
- Chapter 2 - Popera
- Chapter 3 - Celebrity Impersonation
- Chapter 4 - Two Voices
- Chapter 5 - Spirituality
- Chapter 6 - The Journey
- Chapter 7 - Voice Control
- Chapter 8 - Lost Voices
- Chapter 9 - Hear Our Voice
- Works Cited
About the author
Katherine Meizel is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her book Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol (IU Press) was published in 2011; she also wrote about Idol for the magazine Slate from 2007 to 2011. She is currently co-editing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies.
Summary
An exploration of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity, Multivocality focuses on transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, religious contexts, and found voices and lost ones.
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With an authorial voice at once singular and prismatic, Katherine Meizel offers a series of profound meditations on the sociopolitical borderlands of speaking, singing, and silence in musical cultures and everyday life. An exhilarating and indispensable book.
