2024-03-28T21:31:33Zhttps://escholarship.org/oaioai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt10h5p3q32021-12-10T23:04:32Zqt10h5p3q3Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear SilencesSchwartz, Jessica A.2021-11-19On March 1, 1954, the US military detonated “Castle Bravo,” its most powerful nuclear bomb, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Two days later, the US military evacuated the Marshallese to a nearby atoll where they became part of a classified study, without their consent, on the effects of radiation on humans. In Radiation Sounds Jessica A. Schwartz examines the seventy-five years of Marshallese music developed in response to US nuclear militarism on their homeland. Schwartz shows how Marshallese singing draws on religious, cultural, and political practices to make heard the deleterious effects of US nuclear violence. Schwartz also points to the literal silencing of Marshallese voices and throats compromised by radiation as well as the United States’ silencing of information about the human radiation study. By foregrounding the centrality of the aural and sensorial in understanding nuclear testing’s long-term effects, Schwartz offers new modes of understanding the relationships between the voice, sound, militarism, indigeneity, and geopolitics.songsvoicedemocracyharmonyIndigenousdecolonizationsense/sensibilityapplication/pdfCC-BY-NCeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/10h5p3q3monographoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9sn4k8dr2021-12-10T22:51:56Zqt9sn4k8drThe Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American MusicEidsheim, Nina Sun2018-01-11In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how listeners carry a series of assumptions about the nature of the voice and to whom it belongs. Outlining how the voice is linked to ideas of racial essentialism and authenticity, Eidsheim untangles the relationship between race, gender, vocal technique, and timbre while addressing an undertheorized space of racial and ethnic performance. In so doing, she advances our knowledge of the cultural-historical formation of the timbral politics of difference and the ways that comprehending voice remains central to understanding human experience, all the while advocating for a form of listening that would allow us to hear singers in a self-reflexive, denaturalized way.AndersonMarian-- 1897-1993.HolidayBillie-- 1915-1959.ScottJimmy-- 1925-2014.Vocaloid (Computer file)African Americans -- Music -- Social aspects.Music and race -- United States.Voice culture -- Social aspects -- United States.Tone color (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.Music -- Social aspects -- United States.Singing -- Social aspects -- United States.application/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sn4k8drmonographoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8pg298r12021-12-10T22:51:01Zqt8pg298r1Making light : Haydn, musical camp, and the long shadow of German idealismKnapp, Raymond2018-01-01In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and operetta a strain of high camp—a mode of engagement that relishes both the superficial and serious aspects of an aesthetic experience—that runs antithetical to German Idealism's musical paradigms. By considering the disservice done to Haydn by German Idealism alongside the emergence of musical camp in American popular music, Knapp outlines a common ground: a humanistically based aesthetic of shared pleasure that points to ways in which camp receptive modes might rejuvenate the original appeal of Haydn's music that has mostly eluded audiences. In so doing, Knapp remaps the historiographical modes and systems of critical evaluation that dominate musicology while troubling the divide between serious and popular music.Aristotelian virtueshigh camppolitics and musicpopular musicauthenticityExistentialismGilbert and SullivanOscar Wildestring quartetBeethovensalonchamberMilitary SymphonyIl DistrattoFarewell Symphonymusical narrativeHaydncampGerman Idealismtheatrical musicabsolute musicnationalismoperettaminstrelsyapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pg298r1monographoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt2413s7n22021-12-10T22:49:33Zqt2413s7n2Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul RobesonRedmond, Shana L.2020-01-10From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson's continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater, art, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication, care, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone.antiphonal lifevibrationvoiceracelaborapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-NDeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/2413s7n2monographoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt1p00w6bd2011-03-18T22:19:54Zqt1p00w6bdLuigi Boccherini: Dictionary of Persons, Places, and TermsTortella, Jaime2010-03-15An illustrated dictionary of names, places, and terms pertinent to the life and art of Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), containing some 400 entries and accompanied by a short biographical sketch of the composer. It also includes a comprehensive Bibliography and an up-to-date CD Discography.BoccherinicellocellistcomposermusicbiographyEnlightenmentapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p00w6bdpublication