Title: Embodied voices : representing female vocality in Western culture /
Authors: Dunn, Leslie C.; Jones, Nancy A.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Feminism and music.; Women in literature; Music and literature.; Women singers
Contents: The Gorgon and the nightingale: the voice of famale lament and Pindar's twelfth Pythian ode / Charles Segal -- Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio XIX / Nancy A. Jones -- Ophelia's songs in Hamlet: music, madness, and the feminine / Leslie C. Dunn -- Wordsworth and Romantic voice: the poet's song and the prostitute's cry / Sarah Webster Goodwin -- "No women are indeed": the boy actor as vocal seductress in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English drama / Linda Phyllis Austern -- Deriding the voice of Jeannette MacDonald: notes on psychoanalysis and the American film musical / Edward Baron Turk -- Adorno and the Sirens: tele-phono-graphic bodies / Barbara Engh --