The great woman singer : gender and voice in Puerto Rican music / Licia Fiol-Matta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiol-Matta, Licia, author.

Series:

Refiguring American music.

Refiguring American music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women singers--Puerto Rico.

Women singers.

Music--Social aspects--Puerto Rico.

Music.

Music--Political aspects--Puerto Rico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of "the great woman singer" to deploy her concept of the "thinking voice"—an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music.

Contents:

Getting off...the nation

So what if she's Black?

Techne and the lady

The thinking voice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822373469

0822373467

OCLC:

1198932040