Vocal Authority
Singing Style and Ideology
- Author: John Potter, University of York
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521027434
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Vocal Authority is about how singing styles develop and change, why classical singing is different from pop singing, and what singers actually mean when they sing. It takes a historical perspective, beginning with the ancient world, looking at changes in style up to the present day and why, for example, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe could sing together.
Read more- Written by a singer of international repute who has sold more than a million CDs
- The book surveys changes in singing style from the ancient world right up to the present day
- Because it is written by a performer, rather than an academic, the book contains insights into how singing is actually done
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'… immensely stimulating … This book should encourage us, and also make us take more seriously the need for a very different type of voice.' Early Music Review
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521027434
- length: 236 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.366kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus. 1 music example
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Classical ideology and the pre-history of singing
2. The medieval period: religion, literacy and control
3. The Italian baroque revolution
4. The development of the modern voice
5. Concerts, choirs and music halls
6. Armstrong to Sinatra: swing and sub-text
7. Early music and the avant garde: twentieth-century fragmentation
8. Elvis Presley to rap: moments of change since the forties
9. Singing and social processes
10. Towards a theory of vocal style
Notes
List of references
Index.
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