The great woman singer
gender and voice in Puerto Rican music
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Word Count
72,750 words, Guess
Page Count
291 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100822362821
- ISBN-100822362937
- ISBN-139780822362821
- ISBN-139780822362937
- Library of Congress Control Number2016031212
and 5 more
- OCLC Control Number954134268
- OCLC Control Number973874807
- Better World Books9780822362937
- Better World Books9780822362821
- Open LibraryOL27233271M
Classifications
- DDC782.0092/52097295
- LCCML3917.P9 F56 2017
- LCCML3917.P9F56 2016
and 1 more
- LCCML3917.P9 F56 2016
Alternate Titles
- Gender and voice in Puerto Rican music
Description
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers, Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez, 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.
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Series Statement
- Refiguring American music
Other Editions
- The great woman singer: gender and voice in Puerto Rican music
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