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

by Nina Sun Eidsheim

Book Overview

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 voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822368684
• ISBN13: 9780822368687
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"