Overview

Singing Out explores a broad range of singing voices and sung moments, from lavish film musical sequences, television and videogames, through to online platforms, advertising, and multimedia installation work. It illustrates the diverse ways in which the singing voice is produced and understood in different media across international contexts, taking into consideration issues such as corporeal form, age, race, reception, and gender. The act of singing emphasises issues of identity, technology, and the identifying markers of the voice itself, heightening communication, acting as an aid to memory, and inviting judgement. Singing demarcates and breaks down textual and conceptual boundaries, and offers an intensity of experience that gives it a special status on the soundtrack. Singing Out contains a range of approaches to the singing voice, offering students and researchers a variety of methodological and critical tools to understand the contemporary context and importance of singing in multimedia.

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Author:   Catherine Haworth (Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for Music at the University of Huddersfield, University of Huddersfield) ,  Dr Beth Carroll (Lecturer in Film, University of Southampton)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399508209

ISBN 10:   1399508202
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Beth Carroll and Catherine Haworth Part I. Stardom and The Singing Body 1. Bearer of All Things: Black Women’s Voices in 20th Century American Popular Music Abigail Lindo 2. A Voice Too Much: Performance, Authenticity and Nostalgia in Biographical Television Drama Hannah Andrews and Leanne Weston 3. Super-Natural: Television Singing, the Special Guest Star and Stevie Nicks in American Horror Story (2011-) Catherine Haworth Part II. Voices, Commerce and Consumption 4. Singalong Advertising: Imagined Communities of Consumption Malcolm Cook 5. Auto-tuning Hannah Montana: Miley Cyrus’s Child Voice and the Technological Subversion of Girlhood Liam Maloy 6. Where Voice and Body Meet Again: Punjabi Rappers in Bollywood Music Videos Julia Szivak Part III. The Singing Voice as Transformation 7. On Screen, on Stage, in Live Performance: Songs and Singing in Sister Act Ian Sapiro 8. Kinshasa’s Music, Dreams and Shared Cinematic Realities: Listening to Vocal Performance in Félicité (2017) Chris Letcher 9. ‘But the right words, never come’: Transformative Identities, Female Agency and Performance in Sayonara Wild Hearts Jennifer Smith Part IV. Singing, Technology and Mediation 10. ‘We don’t have that’: Representation of Hindustani Classical Vocal Performance in YouTube Reaction Videos Irina Mironova 11. ‘I see Marina, but feel Maria’: Marina Abramović’s Mediation of Callas’s Voice Lea Luka Sikau 12. The World is Mine: Queer Affective Horizons in the Vocaloid Pop of Hatsune Miku Shelina Brown References Index

Reviews

From the first page, this collection sings! Carroll and Haworth have expertly edited a collection that is a necessary addition to numerous academic discourses, such as the musical, sound and voice studies, and one of the few sustained studies into singing in audio-visual media. Singing Out offers fascinating explorations about the body, stardom, technology and liveness through a range of perspectives on singing in reactions videos, biographical television dramas, performance art, video games and advertisements. Each chapter is unique in focus, but all share a rigorous approach to singing as worthy object of study, becoming a chorus of voices that hit all the right notes. * Dr. Julie Lobalzo Wright, Associate Professor, University of Warwick *

From the first page, this collection sings! Carroll and Haworth have expertly edited a collection that is a necessary addition to numerous academic discourses, such as the musical, sound and voice studies, and one of the few sustained studies into singing in audio-visual media. Singing Out offers fascinating explorations about the body, stardom, technology and liveness through a range of perspectives on singing in reactions videos, biographical television dramas, performance art, video games and advertisements. Each chapter is unique in focus, but all share a rigorous approach to singing as worthy object of study, becoming a chorus of voices that hit all the right notes.-- ""Dr. Julie Lobalzo Wright, Associate Professor, University of Warwick""

Author Information

Catherine Haworth is Course Leader for Music and Music Technology at the University of Huddersfield. Her research focuses on musical practices of representation and identity across various media, with a particular interest in film and television music. Catherine has published on topics including the female detective in 1940s Hollywood; music, gender and medical discourse; women and music in James Bond; and celebrity culture in the film musical. She edited a special edition of Music, Sound and the Moving Image on gender and sexuality, and co-edited the collection Gender, Age and Musical Creativity. Beth Carroll is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on matters relating to audiovisual media, including space, place and the body. Beth is particularly interested in sound and the impact it has on issues of immersion and phenomenology in film, videogames, and VR. She is the author of Feeling Film: A Spatial Approach and co-editor of Contemporary Musical Film.

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