Variation in voice quality has long been recognized to have functions beyond the
grammatically distinctive or phonetically useful roles it plays in many languages, indexing …

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 …

This article highlights practices of exclusion embedded in musicology—especially in relation
to race, racialized people, and race relations—in order to rupture its constructed borders and …

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 …

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 …

“I will be rich in black fun.”––Charles Mathews, 1823 This article considers Saidiya
Hartman's formulation of “Terror and Enjoyment” in Scenes of Subjection to explore how the …

Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of US American music and identity. Yet hybrid
music is all too often marked-and marketed-under a single racial label. Resounding Afro …

I remember once being charmed by Walter Benjamin's suggestion that people choose to
write books because they “are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not …

Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national
belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche—a genre known best for its …