{"product_id":"embodied-voices-representing-female-vocality-in-western-culture-paperback-9780521585835","title":"Embodied Voices; Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (Paperback) 9780521585835","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEmbodied Voices\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRepresenting Female Vocality in Western Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores cultural manifestations of female vocality in the light of theories of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeslie C. Dunn (Edited by), Nancy A. Jones (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521585835, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 5 December 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages, 5 b\/w illus.  3 music examples\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm, 0.368 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'... this book makes a bold step in addressing, not least, the future of musicological discourse; namely, whether and how to (dis)locate the boundaries between the musical and the 'extra-musical'. Thus, it should excite anyone interested in the fundamental issue of the meaning of music in our culture.' Brio\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAs 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. Embodied Voices 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Vocality, Textuality, and the Silencing of the Female Voice: 1. The Gorgon and the nightingale: the voice of female lament and Pindar's Twelfth Pythian Ode\u003cbr\u003e 2. Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio XIX\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ophelia's songs in Hamlet: music, madness and the feminine\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wordsworth and Romantic voice: the poet's song and the prostitute's cry\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Anxieties of Audition: 5. 'No women are indeed': the boy actor as vocal seductress in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama\u003cbr\u003e 6. Deriding the voice of Jeanette MacDonald: notes on psychoanalysis and the American film musical\u003cbr\u003e 7. Adorno and the Sirens: tele-phono-graphic bodies\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Women Artists: Vocality and Cultural Authority: 8. The diva doesn't die: George Eliot's Armgart\u003cbr\u003e 9. Rewriting Ophelia: fluidity, madness, and the voice in Louise Colet's La Servante\u003cbr\u003e 10. Staring the camera down: direct address and women's voices\u003cbr\u003e 11. The voice of lament: female vocality and performative efficacy in the Finnish-Karelian itkuvirsi\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Maternal Voices: 12. The lyrical dimensions of spirituality: music, voice, and language in the novels of Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e 13. Red hot mamas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the ethnic maternal voice in American popular song\u003cbr\u003e 14. Maternalism and the material girl Nancy J. 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