How high should boys sing?: gender, authenticity and credibility in the young male voice
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1. Verfasser: Ashley, Martin (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, England Ashgate 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The background -- Singing as social control of boyhood -- Physiology of the young male voice -- Subjectivity and agency in the young male voice -- Admiration of the boy -- A child doing a man's work in a man's world -- Angels in the market place -- We can't sing like men, so we won't sing at all -- Ambassadors and mediators -- The future
A boy sings ... a beautiful thing' (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even than is commonly assumed. Through Ashley's extensive conversations with young performers and analysis of their reception by 'peer audiences', the research reveals that the common supposition that 'boys don't want to sound like girls' is far from adequate in explaining the 'missing males' syndrome that can perple
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ISBN:0754664759
0754696146
9780754664758
9780754696148

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