Multivocality : singing on the borders of identity / Katherine Meizel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meizel, Katherine, author.

Contributor:

Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singing.

Voice culture.

Identity (Psychology).

Music and identity politics.

Physical Description:

x, 253 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and constructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a lifetime. As 21st century singers habitually perform across styles, genres, cultural contexts, histories, and identities, the author suggests that they are not only performing in multiple vocalities, but more critically, they are performing multivocality-creating and recreating identity through the process of singing with many voices. Multivocality constitutes an effort toward a fuller understanding of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity. Author Katherine Meizel recovers the idea of multivocality from its previously abstract treatment, and re-embodies it in the lived experiences of singers who work on and across the fluid borders of identity. Highlighting singers in vocal motion, Multivocality focuses on their transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, between religious contexts, between found voices and lost ones."--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Finding a voice

Vox populi, vox divo: voicing genre politics in classical crossover

Voice and disjuncture in celebrity impersonation

Two voices: singers in the hearing/deaf borderlands

Spiritual multivocality

The journey: voice and identity in gender transition

Voice control

Lost voices

Final reflections: hear our voice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

ISBN:

9780190621476

0190621478

9780190621469

019062146X

OCLC:

1122911787

Publisher Number:

99984135439