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      The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

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      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 assumption...

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      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

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      Weight418 g
      Dimensions153 × 230 × 19 mm