In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that
might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim …

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-
envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound …

Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged
place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to …

This review surveys recent research on language-music: the unified expressive field
comprising sounded and textual signs whose segmentation into “language” and “music” is …

While vocal acts, such as interpellation and speech acts, constitute a network of theoretical
nodes in Butler's writings, her theory of gender performativity neglects to theorize the …

This article presents a system for describing perceptions of vocal timbre via reference to four
different areas of sensation involved in the sympathetic mirroring of vocal production. This …

Marian Anderson's 1955 Metropolitan Opera debut promised to be a pivotal moment that
would create a level playing field for African American singers in US opera. But an …

The human singing voice holds immense power-to convey mood, emotion, and identity in
songs, provide music's undeniable" wow" moments, and communicate a pop song's …

Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry, which every year
produces thousands of digital music recordings, including widely distributed film and …

Vocaloid is a vocal synthesis software package that" sings back" any pitch and word
combination entered by a user, impersonating a singer with a designated sex, age and race …