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.
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.
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.
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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