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The Race of Sound : Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music / by Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975-

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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Aboriginal music in contemporary Canada echoes and exchanges /

Table of Contents: “…Intercultural collaboration / Russell Wallace ; Listening to the politics of aesthetics : contemporary encounters between First Nations/Inuit and early music traditions / Dylan Robinson ; Musical form as theatrical form in native Canadian stage plays : moving through the third space / Klisala Harrison ; Music and narrative in The unnatural and accidental women / interview excerpts, Marie Clements, Sophie Merasty, and Columpa Bobb with Klisala Harrison ; Music, religion, and healing in a Mi'kmaw community / interview, Walter Denny Jr. with Gordon E. Smith ; No heartaches in heaven : a response to aboriginal suicide / Byron Dueck ; Arnie Strynadka, "the Uke-Cree fiddler" / Marcia Ostashewski ; Bits and pieces of truth : storytelling, identity, and hip hop in Saskatchewan / Charity Marsh ; Why do the Innu sing popular music? …”
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