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

• Main Author: Ashley, Martin, 1953-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009.
• Subjects: Singing > Social aspects.; Boys > Psychology.; Voice, Change of.; Singing > Instruction and study > Great Britain.; Singing > Psychological aspects.; MUSIC > Voice. > Instruction & Study; MUSIC > Piano-Vocal-Guitar. > Printed Music; Electronic books.
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A boy sings ... a beautiful thing' (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even t...

Table of Contents:

• The background
• Singing as social control of boyhood
• Physiology of the young male voice
• Subjectivity and agency in the young male voice
• Admiration of the boy
• A child doing a man's work in a man's world
• Angels in the market place
• We can't sing like men, so we won't sing at all
• Ambassadors and mediators
• The future.