Let me clear my throat
essays
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2012 - Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY, Kentucky
Language
English
Word Count
60,500 words, Guess
Page Count
242 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveletmeclearmythro0000pass
- ISBN-139781936747528
- ISBN-139781936747450
- ISBN-139781936747504
- ISBN-101936747529
and 8 more
- ISBN-101936747456
- ISBN-101936747502
- Library of Congress Control Number2012011889
- OCLC Control Number782128049
- Better World Books9781936747528
- Better World Books9781936747450
- Better World Books9781936747504
- Open LibraryOL25270615M
Classifications
- DDC814/.6
- LCCPS3616.A856 L48 2012
- LCCPS3616.A856L48 2012
Description
From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum with significance and emotion. There are murders of punk rock crows, impressionists, and rebel yells; Howard Dean's "BYAH!" and Marlon Brando's "Stella!" and a stock film yawp that has made cameos in movies from A Star is Born to Spaceballs. The voice is thought's incarnating instrument and Elena Passarello's essays are a riotous deconstruction of the ways the sounds we make both express and shape who we are--the annotated soundtrack of us giving voice to ourselves.
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