The Race of Sound Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre-the color or tone of a...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2019
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