The race of sound : : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music / / Nina Sun Eidsheim.

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...

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Superior document:Refiguring American music
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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2019
2018
Language:English
Series:Refiguring American music.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages).
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