The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music (Refiguring American Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (621 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822362937 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.. 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
Her critical biographical approach and her archive of the voice provide new standards for interdisciplinary research, while her treatment of female pop stars such as the giant, but largely obviated Lucecita Benítez, is simply moving and beautiful.". "In this rigorous and original read, Licia Fiol-Matta puts a welcome nail in the masculine script dominating conversations about 'Latin' popular music and Puerto Rico’s musical history