Vocal Authority
Singing Style and Ideology
- Author: John Potter, University of York
- Date Published: February 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521563567
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Why do singers sing in the way they do? Why, for example, is western classical singing so different from pop singing? How is it that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé could sing together? These are the kinds of questions which John Potter, a singer with the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, and himself the master of many styles, poses in this fascinating book, which is effectively a history of singing style. He finds the reasons to be primarily ideological rather than specifically musical. His book identifies particular historical 'moments of change' in singing technique and style, and relates these to a three-stage theory of style based on the relationship of singing to text. There is a substantial section on meaning in singing, and a discussion of how the transmission of meaning is enabled or inhibited by different varieties of style or technique.
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: February 1998
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521563567
- length: 236 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 161 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.515kg
- 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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