Mismatched Women
Author | : Jennifer Fleeger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199936915 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199936919 |
Rating | : 4/5 (919 Downloads) |
Download or read book Mismatched Women written by Jennifer Fleeger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mismatched Women tells the history of sound machines through singers whose bodies and voices do not match. Jennifer Fleeger explores this phenomenon, moving from the fictional Trilby to the real-life Youtube star Susan Boyle, and demonstrating along the way that singers with voices that do not match their bodies are essential to the success of technologies for preserving and sharing music.