How high should boys sing? [ gender, authenticity and credibility in the young male voice

How high should boys sing? [ gender, authenticity and credibility in the young male voice

Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even than is commonly assumed. Through Ashley's extensive conversations with young performers and analysis of their reception by ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ashley, Martin , 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England Burlington, VT : Ashgat , c2009
Subjects:
Boys > Psychology
Singing > Instruction and study > Great Britain
Singing > Psychological aspects
Singing > Social aspects
Voice, Change of
Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The background
  • 2. Singing as social control of boyhood
  • 3. Physiology of the young male voice
  • 4. Subjectivity and agency in the young male voice
  • 5. Admiration of the boy
  • 6. A child doing a man's work in a man's world
  • 7. Angels in the market place
  • 8. We can't sing like men, so we won't sing at all
  • 9. Ambassadors and mediators
  • 10. The future

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