UID:
almahu_9948368018202882
Format:
1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:
9780190097592 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
The new cultural history of music
Content:
This book examines the uses and meanings of women's voices in British society and musical culture between 1780 and 1850. As previous scholars have argued, during these decades patriarchal power increasingly came to rest upon a particular understanding of the essentially different nature of male and female physiology and psychology. As a result, this book contends, the female voice-believed to blend both physical and mental attributes-became central to maintaining, and challenging, gendered power structures. The book argues that the varying ways women used their voices-the sounds that they made, as much as the words they spoke or sang-were understood by contemporaries as aural markers of different kinds of femininity.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2020.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190097561
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
