Name: Vocal Break
Price: 18220.00 CRC
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Author: Lauren Elkin
ISBN: 9781784745271

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Chatto & Windus

Autor

Lauren Elkin

Año

2026

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24.00 x 15.60 x 2.50 cm

ISBN13

9781784745271

Vocal Break

Lauren Elkin (Autor) · Chatto & Windus · Tapa Dura

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A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and ScaffoldingFor millennia, women’s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous. Women singing were cast as sirens: mythical creatures who lured sailors to their death. In Vocal Break, Lauren Elkin seamlessly blends memoir, feminist manifesto and cultural history to explore a plurality of female singing voices – and how women have used them to defy convention, genre, capitalism, racism and sexism. Drawing on her own experiences training as a young soprano in the 1990s, Elkin reflects on the way power and identity shape our voices, focusing on the women who most excited her when she was learning to sing. A vocal break refers to the place where the voice shifts from lower to higher registers, so from one thing to another, and this is a book about what kind of meanings, and sounds, can be made there. Immersing readers in an eclectic soundscape, from musicals and pop music to art punk, what follows is a full-throated tour of women’s voices, including Édith Piaf, Maria Callas, Cyndi Lauper, Kathleen Hanna, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Beyoncé, FKA Twigs and Billie Eilish. Reflecting on what makes women’s singing so powerful – to the point where others feel the need to control or manipulate it – Vocal Break is a joyous call to arms, a siren call:Girls to the front: NOW.