The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material, Symbolic and Aesthetic Dimensions

Author:   Serena Facci ,  Michela Garda
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   7
ISBN:  

9780367418557


Pages:   202
Publication Date:   02 March 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Serena Facci ,  Michela Garda
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   7
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367418557


ISBN 10:   036741855
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   02 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Part 1 The ‘Voice’ and the Voices: Definitions, Iconologies, Myths and Practices 1. Vocalising honey Adriana Cavarero 2. Writing the female voice from Debussy to Boulez Julian Johnson 3. Eurydice’s Voice in Contemporary Opera Michal Grover-Friedlander 4. Maria Callas and the Achievement of an Operatic Vocal Subjectivity Marco Beghelli 5. How Female is the Voice? Conceptualisations and Practices Michela Garda Part 2 The grain of the voices, Experimentation and Technology 6. Love, Race and Resistance: The Fugitive Voice of Nina Simone Martha Feldman 7. Black Sonic Refusal Jayna Brown 8. The Voice that Gives Voice: Female Folk Revival Singers around 1968 Serena Facci 9. Women’s Voices in Cairo, Egypt, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Virginia Danielson 10. ‘Hear what I Feel’: Joan La Barbara, the 1970s and the ‘Extended Voice’ Veniero Rizzardi 11. Remediating the Female Voice in Extremis(m): The Human Voice (1966) Pamela Karantonis

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Serena Facci is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'. Her fieldwork and research projects include traditional and popular music in Italy and in Central-East Africa, and intercultural music making in educational and religious contexts. Michela Garda has a philosophical and musicological background. She teaches Musical Aesthetics and Sociology of Music at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, University of Pavia.

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