The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

by Licia Fiol-Matta

Book Overview

Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers--Myrta Silva, Ruth Fern ndez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Ben tez--to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362937
• ISBN13: 9780822362937
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"