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Queer Voices: Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
Freya Jarman-Ivens
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Description for Queer Voices: Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
Hardcover. This book argues that there are some important implications of the role the voice plays in popular music when thinking about processes of identification. The central thesis is that the voice in popular music is potentially uncanny (Freud's unheimlich), and that this may invite or guard against identification by the listener. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFCA; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
This book argues that there are some important implications of the role the voice plays in popular music when thinking about processes of identification. The central thesis is that the voice in popular music is potentially uncanny (Freud's unheimlich), and that this may invite or guard against identification by the listener.
This book argues that there are some important implications of the role the voice plays in popular music when thinking about processes of identification. The central thesis is that the voice in popular music is potentially uncanny (Freud's unheimlich), and that this may invite or guard against identification by the listener.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230105904
SKU
V9780230105904
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About Freya Jarman-Ivens
FREYA JARMAN-IVENS Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Reviews for Queer Voices: Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
"Freya Jarman-Ivens is one of the most insightful scholars writing on vocality, especially as it relates to matters of sexuality and sexual identity. Although she makes skillful use of theory when and where it counts, it is clear that her primary desire is to communicate ideas, and this she does in engaging style. Anyone who has been terrified by Diamanda ... Read more