The Race of Sound
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...
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2021
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| author | Eidsheim, Nina Sun |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-272832025-07-30T08:59:44Z The Race of Sound Eidsheim, Nina Sun voice race timbre thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology 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. 2021-02-10T13:11:56Z 2021-02-10T13:11:56Z 2020-03-27 11:44:05 2020-04-01T06:48:06Z 2019 book 1007897 OCN: 1115104754 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22281 9780822372646; 9780822368687; 9780822368564 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27283 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22281/1/9781478090359_OA.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22281/1/9781478090359_OA.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22281/1/9781478090359_OA.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478090359 10.1215/9781478090359 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac 9780822372646; 9780822368687; 9780822368564 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 288 Durham open access |
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