Singing Out: The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media

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Singing Out

The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media

Edited by: Catherine Haworth and Beth Carroll

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Takes critical and theoretical approaches to singing across audiovisual media

Explores ways in which singing has been used and understood across audiovisual media platforms
Takes diverse and international approach to understanding the voice
Emphasises issues of identity, technology, and the identifying markers of the voice itself

Singing Out explores a broad range of singing voices and sung moments, from lavish film musical sequences, television and videogames, through to online platforms, advertising, and multimedia installation work. It illustrates the diverse ways in which the singing voice is produced and understood in different media across international contexts, taking into consideration issues such as corporeal form, age, race, reception, and gender.

The act of singing emphasises issues of identity, technology, and the identifying markers of the voice itself, heightening communication, acting as an aid to memory, and inviting judgement. Singing demarcates and breaks down textual and conceptual boundaries, and offers an intensity of experience that gives it a special status on the soundtrack. Singing Out contains a range of approaches to the singing voice, offering students and researchers a variety of methodological and critical tools to understand the contemporary context and importance of singing in multimedia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Beth Carroll and Catherine Haworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART 1 STARDOM AND THE SINGING BODY
1 BEARER OF ALL THINGS: BLACK WOMEN’S VOICES IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC Abigail Lindo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
2 A VOICE TOO MUCH: PERFORMANCE, AUTHENTICITY AND NOSTALGIA IN BIOGRAPHICAL TELEVISION DRAMA Hannah Andrews and Leanne Weston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
3 SUPER-NATURAL: TELEVISION SINGING, THE SPECIAL GUEST STAR AND STEVIE NICKS IN AMERICAN HORROR STORY (2011–) Catherine Haworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
PART 2 VOICES, COMMERCE AND CONSUMPTION
4 SINGALONG ADVERTISING: IMAGINED COMMUNITIES OF CONSUMPTION Malcolm Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
5 AUTO-TUNING HANNAH MONTANA: MILEY CYRUS’S CHILD VOICE AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL SUBVERSION OF GIRLHOOD Liam Maloy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
6 WHERE VOICE AND BODY MEET AGAIN: PUNJABI RAPPERS IN BOLLYWOOD MUSIC VIDEOS Julia Szivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
PART 3 THE SINGING VOICE AS TRANSFORMATION
7 ON SCREEN, ON STAGE, IN LIVE PERFORMANCE: SONGS AND SINGING IN SISTER ACT Ian Sapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
8 KINSHASA’S MUSIC, DREAMS AND SHARED CINEMATIC REALITIES: LISTENING TO VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN FÉLICITÉ (2017) Chris Letcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
9 ‘BUT THE RIGHT WORDS, NEVER COME’: TRANSFORMATIVE IDENTITIES, FEMALE AGENCY AND PERFORMANCE IN SAYONARA WILD HEARTS (2019) Jennifer Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
PART 4 SINGING, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIATION
10 ‘WE DON’T HAVE THAT’: REPRESENTATION OF HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN YOUTUBE REACTION VIDEOS Irina Mironova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
11 ‘I SEE MARINA, BUT FEEL MARIA’: MARINA ABRAMOVIC´’S MEDIATION OF CALLAS’S VOICE Lea Luka Sikau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
12 THE WORLD IS MINE: QUEER AFFECTIVE HORIZONS IN THE VOCALOID POP OF HATSUNE MIKU Shelina Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207

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March 7, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9781399508223

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

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224

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399508223

eBook ISBN: 9781399508223

Keywords for this book

Film Studies

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For universities and colleges of further and higher education

Singing Out

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