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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mismatched women
    sub title: the siren's song through the machine
  name:
    name part: Fleeger, Jennifer
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "In 2009, Susan Boyle's debut roused Simon Cowell from his grumbling slumber on the television show "Britain's Got Talent" and viewers across the world rallied to the side of the unemployed, older woman with the voice of a trained Broadway star. In Mismatched Women, author Jennifer Fleeger argues that the shock produced when Boyle began to sing belies cultural assumptions about how particular female bodies are supposed to sound. Boyle is not an anomaly, but instead belongs to a lineage of women whose voices do not "match" their bodies by conventional expectations, from George Du Maurier's literary Trilby to Metropolitan Opera singer Marion Talley, from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to Kate Smith and Deanna Durbin. Mismatched Women tells a new story about female representation in film by theorizing a figure regularly dismissed as an aberration. The mismatched woman is a stumbling block for both sound and feminist theory, argues Fleeger, because she has been synchronized yet seems to have been put together incorrectly, as if her body could not possibly house the voice that the camera insists belongs to her. Fleeger broadens the traditionally cinematic context of feminist psychoanalytic film theory to account for literary, animated, televisual, and virtual influences. This approach bridges gaps between disciplinary frameworks, showing that studies of literature, film, media, opera, and popular music pose common questions about authenticity, vocal and visual realism, circulation, and reproduction. The book analyzes the importance of the mismatched female voice in historical debates over the emergence of new media and unravels the complexity of female representation in moments of technological change"--
  abstract: "Mismatched Women tells the history of sound machines through singers whose bodies and voices do not match. Jennifer Fleeger explores this phenomenon, moving from the fictional Trilby to the real-life Youtube star Susan Boyle, and demonstrating along the way that singers with voices that do not match their bodies are essential to the success of technologies for preserving and sharing music"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Literary Divas: Trilby, Christine, and the Phantom of Phonography -- Chapter 2: Metropolitan Women: Geraldine Farrar and Marion Talley Silence Opera on Screen -- Chapter 3: Opera in Synch: Deanna Durbin and Musical Playback -- Chapter 4: The Disney Princess: Animation and Real Girls -- Chapter 5: Kate Smith: The Variety "Femcee" on Radio and Television -- Chapter 6: Susan Boyle: The Amateur in the Age of Auto-Tune -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
  note: Jennifer Fleeger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Popular music
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Women singers
  subject:
    topic: Femininity in music
  subject:
    topic: Body image in women
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC / History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
  subject:
    topic: Body image in women
  subject:
    topic: Femininity in music
  subject:
    topic: Popular music
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Women singers
  classification: ML3918.P67 F54 2014
  classification: 306.4/842
  classification: MUS020000 PER004030 SOC028000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford music/media series
  identifier: 9780199936915 (paperback)
  identifier: 0199936919 (paperback)
  identifier: 0199936897 (hardcover)
  identifier: 9780199936892 (hardcover)
  identifier: 2014013755
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140404
    record change date: 20151206124134.0
    record identifier: in00003515817
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng