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Singing Utopia is a unique and ambitious work which asks us to listen differently to voice in musical theatre. Across fifteen case studies from Florodora to Hadestown, Ben Macpherson hears something utopian in the extraordinary, emotional, and situational directness of singing voices as they escape the confines of everyday life. Yet, as this book discovers, the very nature of utopia is paradoxical, fraught with undercurrents of nostalgia, melancholy, and the perpetual threat of the dystopian. Singing Utopia listens across these fault lines in our understanding of utopia and asks what it means for a musical to give voice to an imagined world which is always a contradiction in terms. Who gets to inhabit such a world? Who is excluded? How can we locate utopia in musical theatre voices, and what might be the consequences when its complexities are exposed?Listening for answers to these questions, implicitly connected with concerns of class, race, gender, and culture, the author draws on a diverse range of approaches, including voice studies, musicology, sound studies, literary studies, political philosophy, and ethnography. In doing so, Singing Utopia examines current ways of listening while moving beyond them to develop a series of new terms, including ''decadent appropriation'', ''simuloquism'', two kinds of ''voiceworld'', and three new approaches to the chorus and ensemble. This book offers an original and provocative account of musical theatre singing, exposing the power, possibilities, and paradoxes heard in voices that promise ''something better''-whatever, in the end, that might be.

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• Celý názov: Singing Utopia
• Podnázov: Voice in Musical Theatre
• Autor: Macpherson, Ben (Reader in Vocal Theatres, Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, Reader in Vocal Theatres, Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth)
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 288
• EAN: 9780197557648
• ID: 46525725
• Nakladateľ: Oxford University Press Inc
• Hmotnosť: 3 g
• Rozmery: 235 × 156 mm
• Dátum vydania: 18. January 2025

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