David Kennerley
Sounding Feminine
Women's Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780-1850
David Kennerley
Sounding Feminine
Women's Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780-1850
- Besetzung Literatur
- Komponist David Kennerley
- Ausgabe Buch
- Verlag Oxford University Press
- Bestell-Nr. 9780190097561
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Beschreibung:
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.