Paul Robeson's Voices

Author:   Grant Olwage (Music Historian and Lecturer, Music Historian and Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780197637487


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Grant Olwage (Music Historian and Lecturer, Music Historian and Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780197637487


ISBN 10:   0197637485
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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"<""The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents.>"" - Nina Eidsheim, author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music"


“The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents.” - Nina Eidsheim, author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music


"<""The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents.>"" - Nina Eidsheim, author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents. * Nina Eidsheim, Author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. *"


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Grant Olwage is a music historian and lecturer in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the editor of Composing Apartheid and has written extensively on the Black voice, race, choral cultures, and coloniality. His writing on Paul Robeson's singing, voice, and musical arts has appeared widely.

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