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Product Identifiers

PublisherPolity Press

ISBN-101509529438

ISBN-139781509529438

eBay Product ID (ePID)19038370812

Product Key Features

Number of Pages180 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWhy Do People Sing? : on Voice

Publication Year2019

SubjectInstruction & Study / Voice, Media Studies, Speech

TypeTextbook

AuthorPaddy Scannell

Subject AreaMusic, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7.6 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-049240

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Scannell's book is a gem - distinctive and original. His commitment to a broad phenomenology of communication and the media offers an approach unlike anything else in the field, and his historical insights about the development of talk in broadcasting are unrivaled." Martin Montgomery, University of Macau "In this probing set of personal meditations, Paddy Scannell plumbs our existential depths as interactive animals who find our ultimate meaning and freedom in the play of music and voice." John Durham Peters, Yale University

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal302.2242

Table Of ContentPreface 1 The Voice of the Friend 2 Talk, Radio and Television 3 Technologies of Record 4 Why Do People Sing? Further Reading References

SynopsisIn Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and characters within soundless written texts? How has radio affected voice, talk, music, and singing, and how has it made them public in new ways? And by putting the voice into recordings, to what extent have broadcasting technologies provided a radically new resource for historians? These questions and more are explored in the first three chapters. In the final chapter, Scannell boldly puts into words the inexpressible experience of listening to singing, wherein the glory of the human voice finds its purest expression. This highly original book makes a distinctive intervention by stressing the inherently positive qualities of talk (rather than language) as the basis for communication. Concise and beautifully written, it is suitable for students and scholars of media, communication, and other disciplines across the humanities, as well as general readers with an interest in this fascinating topic.

LC Classification NumberBF592.V64S33 2019