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Author:
Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- author.
Title:
The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music / Nina Sun Eidsheim.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Anderson, Marian,--1897-1993.
Holiday, Billie,--1915-1959.
Scott, Jimmy,--1925-2014.
Vocaloid (Computer file)
Anderson, Marian,--1897-1993.
Holiday, Billie,--1915-1959.
Scott, Jimmy,--1925-2014.
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.
African Americans.
Music and race.
Music--Social aspects.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]z-257) and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
Refiguring American music
ISBN:
0822368560
9780822368564
0822368684
9780822368687
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1045642823
LCCN:
2018022952
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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