Mismatched women : the siren's song through the machine /

"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 J...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fleeger, Jennifer (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:	Oxford music/media series.
Subjects:	Popular music > Social aspects. Women singers. Femininity in music. Body image in women. MUSIC / History & Criticism. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.

Table of Contents:

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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.