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

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