Martin Ashley

How High Should Boys Sing? (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Authenticity and Credibility in the Young Male Voice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A boy sings...a beautiful thing' (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even than is commonly assumed. The book intertwines the study of singing with the study of identity to create a rich resource for musicians, scholars, teachers and all those concerned with young male involvement in music through singing. The conclusions of the book will challenge many attitudes and unconsidered positions through its argument that many boys actually want to sing but are discouraged by a failure of the adult world to understand the boy mind. Ashley intends the book to stand as an indictment of much complacency and myopia with regard to the young male voice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317120841
• Artikelnr.: 44991371

Autorenporträt

Martin Ashley is Head of Research in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University, near Liverpool. After an early career in sound recording with the BBC, he trained as a middle school music teacher and taught for seventeen years in state and independent middle schools, including a period at a cathedral choir school. He has acted as a consultant for the UK government's National Singing Programme, and for the associated Choir Schools' Association Chorister Outreach Programme. He has recently completed a major project on widening boys' participation in choral singing with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The background
Singing as social control of boyhood
The physiology of the young male voice
Subjectivity and agency in the young male voice
Admiration of the boy
A child doing a man's work in a man's world
Angels in the marketplace
We can't sing like men, so we won't sing at all
Ambassadors and mediators
The future
Index.