Embodied Voices
Subtitle: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
Contributors: Leslie C. Dunn (Editor); Nancy A. Jones (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521460125
Subjects: Vocal Music; Women's Studies - General; Music and literature; Women And Music; Music/Songbooks; Women in literature; Literary Criticism; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Voice; Feminism and music - History; Social Science / Gender Studies; Feminism and music
First sentence: The mythologizing and so mystifying of the female voice in the West began with the beginnings of Western culture itself, in ancient Greece.