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The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Contributor(s): Fiol-Matta, Licia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0822362821     ISBN-13: 9780822362821
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE: $102.55  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Latin
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History | Caribbean & West Indies - General
Dewey: 782.009
LCCN: 2016031212
Series: Refiguring American Music
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" L (1.20 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers--Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez--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.
 
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