Nina Sun Eidsheim, The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality in African American Music
The question of how to de-essentialize the concept of the voice may seem a theoretical exercise, but Nina Sun Eidsheim shows in her book The Race of Sound its important political stakes, offering both an analysis of racialized receptions of voices and a theory of voice and listening, with case stud...
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Transposition
2022
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | The question of how to de-essentialize the concept of the voice may seem a theoretical exercise, but Nina Sun Eidsheim shows in her book The Race of Sound its important political stakes, offering both an analysis of racialized receptions of voices and a theory of voice and listening, with case studies coming from such wide-ranging fields as opera, jazz and voice synthesis software. The book starts with elaborate ontological, epistemological and methodological considerations – in line with th... |
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