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The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Licia Fiol-Matta
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Description for The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Paperback. Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 312 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; AVC; AVG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers-Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernandez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benitez-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 they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of the great woman singer to deploy her concept of the thinking voice -an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music.
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Refiguring American Music
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822362937
SKU
V9780822362937
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99-50
About Licia Fiol-Matta
Licia Fiol-Matta teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. She is the author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral.
Reviews for The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Fiol-Matta models for us a mode of both listening and looking with deep care. . . . She expertly weaves the archival excavation of the lives and artistic output of each of the four figures in the book with a critical theorization of voice and gender, but she does this so seamlessly that we may fail initially to apprehend just how difficult this archival labor must have been.
Gayatri Gopinath
Current Musicology
An investigation that doesn't refuse that wonder of childhood . . . The Great Woman Singer gives us the ample material evidence and imaginative know-how to extend women's vocal influence to record all kinds of different stories.
Alexandra T. Vazquez
Current Musicology
This new book makes a number of important interventions into the gendered history of music and performance and, in the process, offers some new and potentially deeply influential formulations. . . . Fiol-Matta changes completely the way we read 'great female singers' but in the process she questions the value of 'greatness,' 'femaleness,' and 'singing.'
Jack Halberstam
Current Musicology
Privileging vocality, the sonic over the scopic, Fiol-Matta guides us through a series of questions the very performers spur as social subjects. She also provides a heuristic through which we might listen with more care to glean an understanding of the social web within which 'great' cultural producers operate.
Leticia Alvarado
Latino Studies
Something resonates and pulses throughout Licia Fiol-Matta's The Great Woman Singer. . . . Fiol-Matta's attention to the gendering and racialization of the voice in Puerto Rican popular music makes crucial interventions within Latin American and Caribbean studies.
Summer Kim Lee
Women & Performance
A welcome addition to the growing field of Latina/o sound studies. . . . [The Great Woman Singer] provides us with a guide to listen anew and in new ways.
Ivan Ramos
Sounding Out!
Gayatri Gopinath
Current Musicology
An investigation that doesn't refuse that wonder of childhood . . . The Great Woman Singer gives us the ample material evidence and imaginative know-how to extend women's vocal influence to record all kinds of different stories.
Alexandra T. Vazquez
Current Musicology
This new book makes a number of important interventions into the gendered history of music and performance and, in the process, offers some new and potentially deeply influential formulations. . . . Fiol-Matta changes completely the way we read 'great female singers' but in the process she questions the value of 'greatness,' 'femaleness,' and 'singing.'
Jack Halberstam
Current Musicology
Privileging vocality, the sonic over the scopic, Fiol-Matta guides us through a series of questions the very performers spur as social subjects. She also provides a heuristic through which we might listen with more care to glean an understanding of the social web within which 'great' cultural producers operate.
Leticia Alvarado
Latino Studies
Something resonates and pulses throughout Licia Fiol-Matta's The Great Woman Singer. . . . Fiol-Matta's attention to the gendering and racialization of the voice in Puerto Rican popular music makes crucial interventions within Latin American and Caribbean studies.
Summer Kim Lee
Women & Performance
A welcome addition to the growing field of Latina/o sound studies. . . . [The Great Woman Singer] provides us with a guide to listen anew and in new ways.
Ivan Ramos
Sounding Out!