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Sounding Feminine - Women's Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780-1850 (Hardcover)
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Sounding Feminine - Women's Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780-1850 (Hardcover)
Series: NEW CULTURAL HISTORY OF MUSIC SERIES
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Between 1780 and 1850, the growing prominence of female singers in
Britain's professional and amateur spheres opened a fraught
discourse about women's engagement with musical culture. Protestant
evangelical gender ideology framed the powerful, well-trained, and
expressive female voice as a sign of inner moral corruption, while
more restrained and delicate vocal styles were seen as indicative
of the performer's virtuous femininity. Yet far from everyone was
of this persuasion, and those from alternative class and religious
milieux responded in more affirmative ways to the sound of
professional female voices. The meanings listeners ascribed to
women's voices reflect crucial developments in the musical world of
the period, such as the popularity of particular genres with
audiences of certain social backgrounds, and the reasons
underpinning the development of prevalent types of
nineteenth-century professional female vocality. Sounding Feminine
traces the development of attitudes towards the female voice that
have decisively shaped modern British society and culture. Arguing
for the importance of the aural dimension of the past, author David
Kennerley draws from a variety of fields-including sound studies,
sensory histories, and gender theory-to examine how audiences heard
different kinds of femininities in the voices of British female
singers. Sounding Feminine explores the intense divisions over the
"correct" use of the female voice, and the intricate links between
gender, nationality, class, and religion in ascribing status,
purpose, and morality to female singing. Through this lens,
Kennerley also explores the formation of British middle-class
identities and the cultural impact of the evangelical
revival-deepening our understanding of this period of
transformational change in British culture.
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