The Great Woman Singer (Paperback)

Licia Fiol-Matta

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Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, North Carolina, 2017

0822362937 / 9780822362937

Series: Book 23 of 34 - Refiguring American Music

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Paperback. Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers-Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernandez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benitez-to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of "the great woman singer" to deploy her concept of the "thinking voice"-an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music. Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Great Woman Singer (Paperback)
Author
Licia Fiol-Matta
Publisher
Duke University Press, North Carolina
Publication year
2017
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0822362937
ISBN 13
9780822362937
Series
Book 23 of 34: Refiguring American Music

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