Paul Robeson's Voices

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25.99
book_author_name: 
Grant Olwage
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Oxford University Press Inc
published_date: 
03/01/2024
isbn: 
9780197637487
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Books > Entertainment > Music > Musical styles & genres > Choral music
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Grant Olwage|Paperback|Oxford University Press Inc|03/01/2024
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9780197637487
Book Description: 
Paul Robeson's Voices is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concert, and recorded performance, and as subject of identification. Olwage asks: how does the voice encapsulate modes of subjectivity, of being? Combining deep archival research with musicological theory, this book is a study of voice as central to Robeson's sense of self and his politics. Paul Robeson's Voices charts the dialectal process of Robeson's vocal and self-discovery, documenting some of the ways Robeson's practice revised the traditions of concert singing in the first half of the twentieth century and how his voice manifested as resistance.

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