Singing Out: The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media

Singing Out explores a broad range of singing voices and sung moments, from lavish film musical sequences, television and videogames, through to online platforms, advertising, and multimedia installation work. It illustrates the diverse ways in which the singing voice is produced and understood in different media across international contexts, taking into consideration issues such as corporeal form, age, race, reception, and gender.

The act of singing emphasises issues of identity, technology, and the identifying markers of the voice itself, heightening communication, acting as an aid to memory, and inviting judgement. Singing demarcates and breaks down textual and conceptual boundaries, and offers an intensity of experience that gives it a special status on the soundtrack.

Singing Out contains a range of approaches to the singing voice, offering students and researchers a variety of methodological and critical tools to understand the contemporary context and importance of singing in multimedia.

Author: Catherine Haworth
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 03/31/2025
Series: Music and the Moving Image
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781399508209