Vocal authority : singing style and ideology /

Vocal authority : singing style and ideology /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Potter, John, tenor
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Subjects:	Singing > Instruction and study. Singing > Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) Vocal music > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

1. Classical ideology and the pre-history of singing
2. The medieval period: religion, literacy and control
3. The Italian baroque revolution
4. The development of the modern voice
5. Concerts, choirs and music halls
6. Armstrong to Sinatra: swing and sub-text
7. Early music and the avant-garde: twentieth-century fragmentation
8. Elvis Presley to rap: moments of change since the forties
9. Singing and social processes
10. Towards a theory of vocal style.