Title The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music / Nina Sun Eidsheim

Published Durham : Duke University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Series Refiguring American music Refiguring American music. Contents Formal and informal pedagogies : believing in race, teaching race, hearing race -- Phantom genealogy : sonic Blackness and the American operatic timbre -- Familiarity as strangeness : Jimmy Scott and the question of Black timbral masculinity -- Race as zeros and ones : Vocaloid refused, reimagined, and repurposed -- Bifurcated listening : the inimitable, imitated Billie Holiday -- Widening rings of being : the singer as stylist and technician Summary In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre--the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how listeners carry a series of assumptions about the nature of the voice and to whom it belongs. Outlining how the voice is linked to ideas of racial essentialism and authenticity, Eidsheim untangles the relationship between race, gender, vocal technique, and timbre while addressing an undertheorized space of racial and ethnic performance. In so doing, she advances our knowledge of the cultural-historical formation of the timbral politics of difference and the ways that comprehending voice remains central to understanding human experience, all the while advocating for a form of listening that would allow us to hear singers in a self-reflexive, denaturalized way Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993. Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959. Scott, Jimmy, 1925-2014. SUBJECT Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 fast Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 fast Scott, Jimmy, 1925-2014 fast Vocaloid (Computer file) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017004610 Vocaloid (Computer file) fast Subject African Americans -- Music -- Social aspects Music and race -- United States Voice culture -- Social aspects -- United States Tone color (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States Music -- Social aspects -- United States Singing -- Social aspects -- United States MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology. African Americans Music and race Music -- Social aspects United States Genre/Form Music. Musique. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018035119 ISBN 9780822372646 0822372649

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