Race of Sound - Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Nina Sun Eidsheim

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nina Sun Eidsheim
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780822368687
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6868-7
• Pages: 277
• Thèmes: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Théorie de la musique