Description
| Product ID: | 9780822368687 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Refiguring American Music |
| Title: | The Race of Sound |
| Subtitle: | Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music |
| Authors: | Author: Nina Sun Eidsheim |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Theory of music and musicology, Theory of music & musicology, Social and cultural history, Ethnic studies, Social & cultural history, Black & Asian studies, USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Examining singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as vocal synthesis technology, Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which the voice and its qualities are socially produced and how listeners assign a series of racialized and gendered set of assumptions to a singing voice. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-01-11 |