Nina Sun Eidsheim

The Race of Sound

Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822368564
• ISBN-10: 0822368560
• Artikelnr.: 52530869

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