A01=Licia Fiol-Matta
Author_Licia Fiol-Matta
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Product details
- ISBN 9780822362821
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers-Myrta Silva, Ruth FernÁndez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita BenÍtez-to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of "the great woman singer" to deploy her concept of the "thinking voice"-an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music.
Licia Fiol-Matta teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. She is the author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral.
