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Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975-

The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music / Nina Sun Eidsheim. - xiv,268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Refiguring American music . - Refiguring American music. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formal and informal pedagogies : believing in race, teaching race, hearing race Phantom genealogy : sonic Blackness and the American operatic timbre Familiarity as strangeness : Jimmy Scott and the question of Black timbral masculinity Race as zeros and ones : Vocaloid refused, reimagined, and repurposed Bifurcated listening : the inimitable, imitated Billie Holiday Widening rings of being : the singer as stylist and technician.



ISBN: 9780822368564 9780822368687

LCCN: 2018022952

Subjects--Personal Names:
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993.
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
Scott, Jimmy, 1925-2014.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Vocaloid (Computer file)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Social aspects.--Music
Music and race--United States.
Voice culture--Social aspects--United States.
Tone color (Music)--Social aspects--United States.
Music--Social aspects--United States.
Singing--Social aspects--United States.

LC Class. No.: ML3917.U6 / E35 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 781.2/308996073