Embodied voices : representing female vocality in Western culture / edited by Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones.
| Other author | Dunn, Leslie C., editor. |
| Other author | Jones, Nancy A., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, ©1994. |
| Description | xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | New perspectives in music history and criticism New perspectives in music history and criticism. ^A359753 |
| Contents | Part I. Vocality, textuality, and the silencing of the female voice. The Gorgon and the nightingale: the voice of female lament and Pindar's twelfth Pythian Ode / Charles Segal -- Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio XIX / Nancy A. Jones -- Ophelia's songs in Hamlet: music, madness, and the feminine / Leslie C. Dunn -- Wordsworth and Romantic voice: the poet's song and the prostitute's cry / Sarah Webster Goodwin -- Part II. Anxieties of audition. "No women are indeed": the boy actor as vocal seductress in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English drama / Linda Phyllis Austern -- Deriding the voice of Jeannette MacDonald: notes on psychoanalysis and the American film musical / Edward Baron Turk -- Adorno and the Sirens: tele-phono-graphic bodies / Barbara Engh -- Part III. Women artists: vocality and cultural authority. The diva doesn't die: George Eliot's Armgart / Rebecca A. Pope -- Rewriting Ophelia: fluidity, madness, and voice in Louise Colet's La Servante / Janet Beizer -- Staring the camera down: direct address and women's voices / Amy Lawrence -- The voice of lament: female vocality and performative efficacy in the Finnish-Karelian Itkuvirsi / Elizabeth Tolbert -- Part IV. Maternal voices. The lyrical dimensions of spirituality: music, voice, and language in the novels of Toni Morrison / Karla F.C. Holloway -- Red hot mamas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the ethnic maternal voice in American popular song / Peter Antelyes -- Maternalism and the material girl / Nancy J. Vickers. |
| Abstract | As a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as sexual and cultural power. This book explores cultural manifestations of female vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body and sexual difference. The fourteen essays collected here examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Though diverse in their critical approaches, the essays are united in their attempt to articulate the compelling yet problematic intersections of gender, voice, and embodiment as they have shaped the textual representation of women and women's self-expression in performance. |
| Local note | Little-290144--305130043268Z |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 93039496 |
| ISBN | 0521460123 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML82 .E55 1994 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |