How high should boys sing? : Gender, authenticity and credibility in the young male voice / Martin Ashley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashley, Martin, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singing--Social aspects.

Singing.

Boys--Psychology.

Boys.

Voice, Change of.

Singing--Instruction and study--Great Britain.

Singing--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

182 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A boy sings...a beautiful thing' (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even than is commonly assumed. Through Ashley's extensive conversations with young performers and analysis of their reception by 'peer audiences', the research reveals that the common supposition that 'boys don't want to sound like girls' is far from adequate in explaining the 'missing males' syndrome that can perple

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Background; 2 Singing as Social Control of Boyhood; 3 Physiology of the Young Male Voice; 4 Subjectivity and Agency in the Young Male Voice; 5 Admiration of the Boy; 6 A Child Doing a Man's Work in a Man's World; 7 Angels in the Market Place; 8 We Can't Sing Like Men, So We Won't Sing At All; 9 Ambassadors and Mediators; 10 The Future; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-315-58716-5

1-317-12084-1

1-282-26130-4

9786612261305

0-7546-9614-6

9781315587165

OCLC:

461293678