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Queer Voices

Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture (CSGSC)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: Voice, Queer, Technologies

    • Freya Jarman-Ivens
    Pages 1-23
  3. Identification: We Go to the Opera to Eat Voice

    • Freya Jarman-Ivens
    Pages 25-57
  4. Diamanda Galás: One Long Mad Scene

    • Freya Jarman-Ivens
    Pages 127-160
  5. Coda: To Queer Or Not to Queer?

    • Freya Jarman-Ivens
    Pages 161-163
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 165-192

About this book

This book argues that there are some important implications of the role the voice plays in popular music when thinking about processes of identification. The central thesis is that the voice in popular music is potentially uncanny (Freud's unheimlich), and that this may invite or guard against identification by the listener.

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"Freya Jarman-Ivens is one of the most insightful scholars writing on vocality, especially as it relates to matters of sexuality and sexual identity. Although she makes skillful use of theory when and where it counts, it is clear that her primary desire is to communicate ideas, and this she does in engaging style. Anyone who has been terrified by Diamanda Galás, or responded with a somatic thrill to the voice of Maria Callas or Karen Carpenter, will find this book difficult to put down." - Derek B. Scott, author of From the Erotic to the Demonic and Sounds of the Metropolis

About the author

FREYA JARMAN-IVENS Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool, UK.

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