The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might...
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Author: Nina Sun Eidsheim
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The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music by Eidsheim, Nina Sun

The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

Dhs. 236.83

The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

Dhs. 236.83
Author: Nina Sun Eidsheim
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how listeners carry a series of assumptions about the nature of the voice and to whom it belongs. Outlining how the voice is linked to ideas of racial essentialism and authenticity, Eidsheim untangles the relationship between race, gender, vocal technique, and timbre while addressing an undertheorized space of racial and ethnic performance. In so doing, she advances our knowledge of the cultural-historical formation of the timbral politics of difference and the ways that comprehending voice remains central to understanding human experience, all the while advocating for a form of listening that would allow us to hear singers in a self-reflexive, denaturalized way.

Author: Nina Sun Eidsheim
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/11/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780822368687

About the Author
Nina Sun Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice, also published by Duke University Press.

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