Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters - Masi Asare

Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters

Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3095-9 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Scholar, songwriter, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970, showing how singers such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Lena Horne possessed highly trained voices who fell in a lineage of singers and teachers.
In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a vanguard of black women singers including Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Pearl Bailey, Juanita Hall, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Diahann Carroll, and Leslie Uggams created a lineage of highly trained and effective voice teachers whose sound and vocal techniques continue to be heard today. Challenging pervasive narratives that these and other black women possessed “untrained” voices, Asare theorizes singing as a form of sonic citational practice—how the sound of the teacher’s voice lives on in the student’s singing. From vaudeville-blues shouters, black torch singers, and character actresses to nightclub vocalists and Broadway glamour girls, Asare locates black women of the musical stage in the context of historical voice pedagogy. She invites readers not only to study these singers, but to study with them—taking seriously what they and their contemporaries have taught about the voice. Ultimately, Asare speaks to the need to feel and hear the racial history in contemporary musical theatre.

Masi Asare is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University and a Tony Award–nominated Broadway songwriter and dramatist.

Warming Up  ix
Note on the Phonetic Transcription  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Citing the Vocal-Possible  1
1. Vocal Color in Blue: Learning the Song with Blueswomen, Shouters, and Belters  24
2. Beyond the Weary-Bluesy Mammy: Listening Better with Midcentury Character Divas  64
3. "A Little Singer on Broadway": Exercising American Glamour with Golden Age Starlets  106
4. Secrets of Vocal Health: Voice Teachers and Pop Vocal Technique  162
Playoff  202
Appendix: More Exercises for Voice Practice  211
Notes  215
Bibliography  253
Index  271

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Refiguring American Music
Zusatzinfo 18 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-3095-X / 147803095X
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-3095-9 / 9781478030959
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