Paul Robeson's Voices, Paperback by Olwage, Grant, Brand New, Free shipping i...

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Genre: Music ISBN: 9780197637487 Format: Trade Paperback Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Author: Grant Olwage gtin13: 9780197637487 Number of Pages: 384 Pages Book Title: Paul Robeson's Voices Publication Year: 2023 Topic: History & Criticism, Instruction & Study / Voice

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Paul Robeson's Voices, Paperback by Olwage, Grant, ISBN 0197637485, ISBN-13 9780197637487, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.