Paul Robesons Voices
Author | : Olwage |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-11-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 0197637485 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780197637487 |
Rating | : 4/5 (487 Downloads) |
Download or read book Paul Robesons Voices written by Olwage and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.