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VOCAL BREAK

ELKIN, LAUREN

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For millennia, womens raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous. Women singing were cast as sirens: mythical creatures who lured sailors to their death. In Vocal Break, Lauren Elkin seamlessly blends memoir, feminist manifesto and cultural history to explore a plurality of female singing voices and how women have used them to defy convention, genre, capitalism, racism and sexism. Drawing on her own experiences training as a young soprano in the 1990s, Elkin reflects on the way power and identity shape our voice...[Read more]

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DetailsVINTAGE (UK)
2026
256 Pages
Format: Cartone
ISBN: 9781784745271
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Gender | Queers Studies

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