Masi Asare

Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters

Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scholar, songwriter, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970, showing how singers such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Lena Horne possessed highly trained voices who fell in a lineage of singers and teachers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478026730
• ISBN-10: 1478026731
• Artikelnr.: 69923453

Autorenporträt

Masi Asare

Inhaltsangabe

Warming Up  ix
Note on the Phonetic Transcription  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Citing the Vocal-Possible  1
1. Vocal Color in Blue: Learning the Song with Blueswomen, Shouters, and
Belters  24
2. Beyond the Weary-Bluesy Mammy: Listening Better with Midcentury
Character Divas  64
3. "A Little Singer on Broadway": Exercising American Glamour with Golden
Age Starlets  106
4. Secrets of Vocal Health: Voice Teachers and Pop Vocal Technique  162
Playoff  202
Appendix: More Exercises for Voice Practice  211
Notes  215
Bibliography  253
Index  271