Vocal break: on women, music and power (Record no. 361839)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781784745271
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Classification number 780.82 ELK
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Personal name Elkin, Lauren
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Title Vocal break: on women, music and power
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Chatto & Windus
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2026
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 374p.
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Summary, etc. A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding<br/>'It took me ten years to go from shy young girl to punk rocker, if I'd had this book I'd have got there much quicker’ Viv Albertine<br/>For millennia, women’s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous. Women singing were cast as sirens: mythical creatures who lured sailors to their death.<br/>In Vocal Break, Lauren Elkin seamlessly blends memoir, feminist manifesto and cultural history to explore a plurality of female singing voices – and how women have used them to defy convention, genre, capitalism, racism and sexism. Drawing on her own experiences training as a young soprano in the 1990s, Elkin reflects on the way power and identity shape our voices, focusing on the women who most excited her when she was learning to sing.<br/>A vocal break refers to the place where the voice shifts from lower to higher registers and this is a book about what kind of meanings, and sounds, can be made there. Immersing readers in an eclectic soundscape, from musicals and pop music to art punk, what follows is a full-throated tour of women’s voices, including Édith Piaf, Maria Callas, Cyndi Lauper, Kathleen Hanna, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Beyoncé, FKA Twigs and Billie Eilish.<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Vocal music performance
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Music
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Date last seen Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired
2026-08-04   780.82 ELK 186351 2026-08-04 Books Not Missing Dewey Decimal Classification Not Damaged     Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2026-08-04

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