Embodied Voices explores cultural manifestations of feminine vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference. The voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics, yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, because the female voice signifies sexual and cultural power. The fourteen essays in this book examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis and critical theory.
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"The essays of 'Embodied Voices' are important because they teach us--as music theorists--about the varieties of performative embodiment that are correlated with music's expressive powers." Judy Lochhead, Music Theory On-Line
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Embodied Voices explores cultural manifestations of feminine vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference. The voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics, yet it i s the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, because the female voice signifies sexual and cultural power. The fourteen essays in this book examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis and critical theory.
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The mythologizing and so mystifying of the female voice in the West began with the beginnings of Western culture itself, in ancient Greece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dear bearer, refugee lament, female vocality, lament performance, maternal voice, auditory pleasure, red hot mama, acoustic mirror, sweet papa, ritual wailing, bloody birth, solitary reaper, embodied voice, sweet mama, stress shift Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Alice Fell, Surname Viet, English Renaissance, George Eliot, Indiana University Press, Kaja Silverman, Columbia University Press, Los Angeles, Louise Colet, University of California Press, University of Minnesota Press, Sophie Tucker, Toni Morrison, Againe Syren, Bessie Smith, Harvard University Press, Two English Girls, Charles Segal, Guy Rosolato, Nelson Eddy, West African, Nobody's Perfect, Song of Solomon New!
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The mythologizing and so mystifying of the female voice in the West began with the beginnings of Western culture itself, in ancient Greece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dear bearer, refugee lament, female vocality, lament performance, maternal voice, auditory pleasure, red hot mama, acoustic mirror, sweet papa, ritual wailing, bloody birth, solitary reaper, embodied voice, sweet mama, stress shift Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Alice Fell, Surname Viet, English Renaissance, George Eliot, Indiana University Press, Kaja Silverman, Columbia University Press, Los Angeles, Louise Colet, University of California Press, University of Minnesota Press, Sophie Tucker, Toni Morrison, Againe Syren, Bessie Smith, Harvard University Press, Two English Girls, Charles Segal, Guy Rosolato, Nelson Eddy, West African, Nobody's Perfect, Song of Solomon New!
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- The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison on 5 pages
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison on 4 pages
- Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality by Susan Mcclary in Front Matter, page 55, and page 154
- Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber on page 89, page 93, and page 94
- The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Kaja Silverman on page 35, page 53, and page 233
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- Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges" by Paula Gillett on 4 pages
- Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film by Britta Sjogren on 4 pages
- O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage by Amanda Eubanks Winkler on 4 pages
- Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by Bonnie Gordon in Front Matter, page 89, and Back Matter
- Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Suffering Ecstasy by Shirley Sharon-Zisser on page 136, and Back Matter
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