Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture

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Leslie C. Dunn, Nancy A. Jones
Cambridge University Press, 1994 - 254 頁
As a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as sexual and cultural power. This book explores cultural manifestations of female vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body and sexual difference. The fourteen essays collected here examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Though diverse in their critical approaches, the essays are united in their attempt to articulate the compelling yet problematic intersections of gender, voice, and embodiment as they have shaped the textual representation of women and women's self-expression in performance.

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The Gorgon and the nightingale the voice of female lament and Pindars Twelfth Pythian Ode
17
Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio XIX
35
Ophelias songs in Hamlet music madness and the feminine
50
Wordsworth and Romantic voice the poets song and the prostitutes cry
65
Anxieties of audition
81
No women are indeed the boy actor as vocal seductress in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century English drama
83
Deriding the voice of Jeanette MacDonald notes on psychoanalysis and the American film musical
103
Adorno and the Sirens telephonographic bodies
120
Rewriting Ophelia fluidity madness and voice in Louise Colets La Servante
152
Staring the camera down direct address and womens voices
166
The voice of lament female vocality and performative efficacy in the FinnishKarelian itkuvirsi
179
I
195
The lyrical dimensions of spirituality music voice and language in the novels of Toni Morrison
197
Red hot mamas Bessie Smith Sophie Tucker and the ethnic maternal voice in American popular song
212
Maternalism and the material girl
230
Index
247

Women artists vocality and cultural authority
137
The diva doesnt die George Eliots Armgart
139

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