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

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Main Author: Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Refiguring American music.
Subjects:
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.
Music > Social aspects > United States.
Singing > Social aspects > United States.
Tone color (Music) > Social aspects > United States.
Voice culture > Social aspects > United States.
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Table of 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.

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