Singing Out

Catherine Haworth is Course Leader for Music and Music Technology at the University of Huddersfield. Her research focuses on musical practices of representation and identity across various media, with a particular interest in film and television music. Catherine has published on topics including the female detective in 1940s Hollywood; music, gender and medical discourse; women and music in James Bond; and celebrity culture in the film musical. She edited a special edition of Music, Sound and the Moving Image on gender and sexuality, and co-edited the collection Gender, Age and Musical Creativity. Beth Carroll is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on matters relating to audiovisual media, including space, place and the body. Beth is particularly interested in sound and the impact it has on issues of immersion and phenomenology in film, videogames, and VR. She is the author of Feeling Film: A Spatial Approach and co-editor of Contemporary Musical Film.

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Introduction
Beth Carroll and Catherine Haworth

Part I. Stardom and The Singing Body

1. Bearer of All Things: Black Women’s Voices in 20th Century American Popular Music
Abigail Lindo

2. A Voice Too Much: Performance, Authenticity and Nostalgia in Biographical Television Drama Hannah Andrews and Leanne Weston

3. Super-Natural: Television Singing, the Special Guest Star and Stevie Nicks in American Horror Story (2011-)
Catherine Haworth

Part II. Voices, Commerce and Consumption

4. Singalong Advertising: Imagined Communities of Consumption
Malcolm Cook

5. Auto-tuning Hannah Montana: Miley Cyrus’s Child Voice and the Technological Subversion of Girlhood
Liam Maloy

6. Where Voice and Body Meet Again: Punjabi Rappers in Bollywood Music Videos
Julia Szivak

Part III. The Singing Voice as Transformation

7. On Screen, on Stage, in Live Performance: Songs and Singing in Sister Act
Ian Sapiro

8. Kinshasa’s Music, Dreams and Shared Cinematic Realities: Listening to Vocal Performance in Félicité (2017)
Chris Letcher

9. ‘But the right words, never come’: Transformative Identities, Female Agency and Performance in Sayonara Wild Hearts
Jennifer Smith

Part IV. Singing, Technology and Mediation

10. ‘We don’t have that’: Representation of Hindustani Classical Vocal Performance in YouTube Reaction Videos
Irina Mironova

11. ‘I see Marina, but feel Maria’: Marina Abramović’s Mediation of Callas’s Voice
Lea Luka Sikau

12. The World is Mine: Queer Affective Horizons in the Vocaloid Pop of Hatsune Miku
Shelina Brown

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