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The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music / Nina Sun Eidsheim.

By: Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Refiguring American musicPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019Description: xiv,268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822368564; 9780822368687Subject(s): Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 | Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 | Scott, Jimmy, 1925-2014 | Vocaloid (Computer file) | African Americans -- Music -- Social aspects | 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 StatesAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Race of soundDDC classification: 781.2/308996073 LOC classification: ML3917.U6 | E35 2018Also published electronically.
Contents:
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.
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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.

Also published electronically.

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