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Author Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- author.

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

Publication Info. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Refiguring American music
Refiguring American music.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject 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.
Music -- Social aspects -- United States.
Singing -- Social aspects -- United States.
Tone color (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Voice culture -- Social aspects -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- Race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019 xiv, 268 pages Refiguring American music. 9780822368564 (DLC) 2018035119
ISBN 9780822368564
9780822372646 (e-book)

 
    
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