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Social Voices
Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly
Sills
Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand
at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S.
Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a
political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide
range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma
Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa
Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of
race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed
by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between
narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between
privileged and marginalized identities; singers' ability to adapt
to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in
order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a
singer's life and art build on one another; and technology's
ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music.
Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how
singers and their songs equip us to process social change and
divergent opinions.
Contributors: Christina D. Abreu, Michael K.
Bourdaghs, Kwame Dawes, Nancy Guy, Ruth Hellier, John Lie, Treva B.
Lindsey, Eric Lott, Katherine Meizel, Carol A. Muller, Natalie
Sarrazin, Anthony Seeger, Carol Silverman, Andrew Simon, Jeff Todd
Titon, and Elijah Wald
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Women Singers in Global Contexts
Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making. Ten unique women constitute the heart of this volume: each one has engaged her singing voice as a central element in her life, experiencing various opportunities, tensions, and choices through her vocality. These biographical and poetic narratives demonstrate how the act of vocalizing embodies dynamics of representation, power, agency, activism, and risk-taking._x000B__x000B_Engaging with performance practice, politics, and constructions of gender through vocality and vocal aesthetics, this collection offers valuable insights into the experiences of specific women singers in a range of sociocultural contexts. Contributors trace themes and threads that include childhood, families, motherhood, migration, fame, training, transmission, technology, and the interface of private lives and public identities._x000B__x000B_This volume is the first collection of primarily ethnographic work to concentrate solely on individual women singers. Singing takes on a distinctive role in each woman's life, and the women profiled include a locally known community singer, an internationally-renowned priestess, a professional wedding singer, and a national star. Essays range across musical genres encompassing jazz, rap, traditional, folk, devotional, and classical, and the collection's geographical focus includes Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, Germany, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Torres Strait Islands, Turkey, and the United States._x000B__x000B_Contributors are Shino Arisawa, Katelyn Barney, Gay Breyley, Nicoletta Demetriou, Veronica Doubleday, Ruth Hellier, Ellen Koskoff, Carol Muller, Thomas Solomon, Amanda Villepastour, and Louise Wrazen._x000B_
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