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Paul Robeson's Voices
- Author: Olwage, Grant
This carefully researched, well-documented book will be most useful to scholars...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through researchers; professionals
Paul Robeson's Voices
- Author: Olwage, Grant
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This carefully researched, well-documented book will be most useful to scholars...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through researchers; professionals
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Paul Robeson's Voices is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concert, and recorded performance, and as subject of identification. Olwage asks: how does the voice encapsulate modes of subjectivity, of being? Combining deep archival research with musicological theory, this book is a study of voice as central to Robeson's sense of self and his politics. Paul Robeson's Voices charts the dialectal process of Robeson's vocal and self-discovery, documenting some of the ways Robeson's practice revised the traditions of concert singing in the first half of the twentieth century and how his voice manifested as resistance.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction: Voice-Thinking
- 1. Becoming Paul Robeson's Voice
- 2. Negro Spiritual: Voicing Desire
- 3. Natural Acts, or To Sing Simply
- 4. A Voice for the People
- 5. Voices Politic
- 6. A Microphone Voice
- Afterword: In-between and Against: A Voice for the Times
- Works Cited
- Index
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This carefully researched, well-documented book will be most useful to scholars...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through researchers; professionals
