The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:	Refiguring American music.
Subjects:	Anderson, Marian, > 1897-1993. Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959. Scott, Jimmy, > 1925-2014. Vocaloid (Computer file) 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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.