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... This chapter takes voice teachers and their training methods as objects of analysis, locating black women stars of the musical stage within the continuum of historical voice pedagogy across the long twentieth century. This tradition has long constructed singing technique as bodily healthfulness...

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... Examining the influence of the blues shouter’s vocal sound on what became the Broadway belter’s technique, this chapter showcases a line of historical singing lessons, the contexts and moments in which singers taught particular songs to one another and in which vocal technique was also part...

... the principles of a strident voice. The analysis demonstrates the fine line between male authority and violence, both of which are contained in eloquent expression. virtuosity vocal technique timbre anger ...

... decades. Similarly, the twenty-first century casting director’s shorthand for a reductive demand of black vocality—"Take me to church!”—disavows ideas of expansion, change, and vocal co-presence for black singers. By contrast, the black feminist study of singing lessons in this book unfolds a theory...

... “Music’s Material Dependency: What Underwater Opera Can Tell Us about Odysseus’s Ears” examines the underwater vocal practice of Los Angeles–based performance artist and soprano Juliana Snapper and dispenses with the idea that sound is stable and knowable before it is produced and perceived...