Embodied voices : representing female vocality in Western culture

Title
  1. Embodied voices : representing female vocality in Western culture / edited by Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones.
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  1. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional authors
  1. Dunn, Leslie C.
  2. Jones, Nancy A.
Description
  1. xvii, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. New perspectives in music history and criticism
Subject
  1. Music and literature
  2. Feminism and music
  3. Women singers
  4. Women in literature
Contents
  1. The Gorgon and the nightingale: the voice of famale 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 -- "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 --
  2. 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 -- The lyrical dimensions of spirituality: music, voice, and language in the novels of Toni Morrison / Karla F.C. Holloway -- Red hot mammas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the ethnic maternal voice in American popular song / Peter Antelyes --Maternalism and the material girl / Nancy J. Vickers
Call number
  1. JME 95-233
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Embodied voices : representing female vocality in Western culture / edited by Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones.
Imprint
  1. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Series
  1. New perspectives in music history and criticism
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Dunn, Leslie C.
  2. Jones, Nancy A.
LCCN
  1. 93039496 /MN
ISBN
  1. 0521460123
Research call number
  1. JME 95-233
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