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

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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2019]
Colección:Refiguring American music.
Temas:
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.
Noirs américains > Musique > Aspect social.
Musique et race > États-Unis.
Voix > Culture > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Timbre > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Musique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Chant > Aspect social > États-Unis.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
MUSIC > Ethnomusicology.
African Americans.
Music and race.
Music > Social aspects.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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