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 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521585835
Subjects: Vocal Music; Women And Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; Women's Studies - General; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Voice; Feminism and music - History; Music / Voice; Music-History & Criticism - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Women's Studies - General
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.