The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music - Refiguring American Music - Nina Sun Eidsheim - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822368687 - January 11, 2019
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The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music - Refiguring 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 assumptions to a singing voice.


288 pages, 38 illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 11, 2019
ISBN13 9780822368687
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 230 × 153 × 19 mm   ·   418 g
Language English  

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