Singing Utopia - Macpherson, Ben
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Singing Utopia is an original study of voice in musical theatre. Rather than focusing on how actors sing or analysing voices using established approaches found in opera studies, this book offers readers ways to understand musical theatre voices from a cultural perspective. It argues that musical theatre singing allows listeners and audiences to escape their everyday lives; and that voices can 'be' utopian. It then considers what this means and uncovers some paradoxes and difficulties in this idea. Introducing a new set of terms, it provides a way to listen to, think about, and even perform, voice in popular musical theatre.…mehr

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Singing Utopia is an original study of voice in musical theatre. Rather than focusing on how actors sing or analysing voices using established approaches found in opera studies, this book offers readers ways to understand musical theatre voices from a cultural perspective. It argues that musical theatre singing allows listeners and audiences to escape their everyday lives; and that voices can 'be' utopian. It then considers what this means and uncovers some paradoxes and difficulties in this idea. Introducing a new set of terms, it provides a way to listen to, think about, and even perform, voice in popular musical theatre.
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Ben Macpherson is Reader in Vocal Theatres at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Joining Portsmouth in 2013, he led the undergraduate musical theatre programme until 2023. Prior to working at Portsmouth, he taught at various other institutions in the UK. He is founding co-editor of Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, an editorial board member of the Studies in Musical Theatre Journal, and has published and presented widely on topics relating to voice studies, musical theatre, and the musical on record - a subject on which he has led several grant-funded projects. He holds a PhD from the University of Winchester, UK.