Embodied Voices

Embodied Voices by Leslie C Dunn

As 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.

'… a stimulating book which keeps its focus true despite the almost perverse range of subject matter.. [a] dizzying intellectual switchback.' The Musical Times
'... 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

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ISBN 13	9780521585835
ISBN 10	052158583X
Title	Embodied Voices
Author	Leslie C Dunn
Series	New Perspectives In Music History And Criticism
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1996-12-05
Number of pages	276
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