The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Refiguring American Music)
The Race of Sound examines listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music. Nina Sun Eidsheim presents a scholarly study of how sound is experienced, perceived, and understood, offering readers an engaging contribution to musicology and the broader study of American musical culture.
About This Book
The Race of Sound explores listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music.
Nina Sun Eidsheim considers how musical sound is experienced and understood through the voice and the act of listening.
The book offers a scholarly study of sound, musical perception, and African American musical practices.
Part of the Refiguring American Music series, it will interest readers of musicology, cultural studies, and African American studies.
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