The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material, Symbolic and Aesthetic Dimensions
- Author: Facci, Serena
- Author: Garda, Michela
The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material, Symbolic and Aesthetic Dimensions
- Author: Facci, Serena
- Author: Garda, Michela
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By integrating theoretical approaches to the female voice with the musicological investigation of female singers’ practices, the contributors to this volume offer fresh viewpoints on the material, symbolic and cultural aspects of the female voice in the twentieth century. Various styles and genres are covered, including Western art music, experimental composition, popular music, urban folk and jazz. The volume offers a substantial and innovative appraisal of the role of the female voice from the perspective of twentieth-century performance practices, the centrality of female singers’ experimentations and extended vocal techniques along with the process of the ‘subjectivisation’ of the voice.
Contents
- 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
