How high should boys sing? Gender, authenticity and credibility in the young male voice
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 tha...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798360806719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Background; 2 Singing as Social Control of Boyhood; 3 Physiology of the Young Male Voice; 4 Subjectivity and Agency in the Young Male Voice; 5 Admiration of the Boy; 6 A Child Doing a Man's Work in a Man's World; 7 Angels in the Market Place; 8 We Can't Sing Like Men, So We Won't Sing At All; 9 Ambassadors and Mediators; 10 The Future; Index
