Nina Sun Eidsheim

The Race of Sound

Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Refiguring American Music
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780822368687
• ISBN-10: 0822368684
• Artikelnr.: 52524160

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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