The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music /
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| Author / Creator: | Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- author. |
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| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. ©2019 |
| Description: | xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Refiguring American music Refiguring American music. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11763204 |
| Related Items: | Online version:
Race of sound. |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, the Acousmatic question: Who Is This?
- 1. Formal And Informal Pedagogies
- Believing in Race, Teaching Race, Hearing Race
- 2. Phantom Genealogy
- Sonic Blackness and the American Operatic Timbre
- 3. Familiarity As Strangeness
- Jimmy Scott and the Question of Black Timbral Masculinity
- 4. Race As Zeros And Ones
- Vocaloid Refused, Reimagined, and Repurposed
- 5. Bifurcated Listening
- The Inimitable, Imitated Billie Holiday
- 6. Widening Rings Of Being
- The Singer as Stylist and Technician
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
