The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music

The race of sound listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham Duke University Press 2019
Durham : 2018.
Colección:Refiguring American music.
Materias:
Anderson, Marian, > 1897-1993.
Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959.
Scott, Jimmy, > 1925-2014.
Vocaloid (Computer file)
African Americans > Music > Social aspects.
Music and race > United States.
Voice culture > Social aspects > United States.
Tone color (Music) > Social aspects > United States.
Music > Social aspects > United States.
Singing > Social aspects > United States.
voice
race
timbre
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Formal and informal pedagogies : believing in race, teaching race, hearing race
  • Phantom genealogy : sonic Blackness and the American operatic timbre
  • Familiarity as strangeness : Jimmy Scott and the question of Black timbral masculinity
  • Race as zeros and ones : Vocaloid refused, reimagined, and repurposed
  • Bifurcated listening : the inimitable, imitated Billie Holiday
  • Widening rings of being : the singer as stylist and technician.

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