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The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music

by Richard Elliott
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781501332142
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: GBP 38.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 408 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Rock, and Instruction & Study / Voice

Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, memory, innocence and experience in modern Anglophone popular song and the use by singers and songwriters of a 'late voice'. Lateness here refers to five primary issues: chronology (the stage in an artist's career); the vocal act (the ability to convincingly portray experience); afterlife (posthumous careers made possible by recorded sound); retrospection (how voices 'look back' or anticipate looking back); and the writing of age, experience, lateness and loss into song texts.

There has been recent growth in research on ageing and the experience of later stages of life, focusing on physical health, lifestyle and psychology, with work in the latter field intersecting with the field of memory studies. The Late Voice seeks to connect age, experience and lateness with particular performers and performance traditions via the identification and analysis of a late voice in singers and songwriters of mid-late twentieth century popular music.

Elliott, Richard: - Richard Elliott is Senior Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University, UK. His current research focuses on the representations of time, age and experience in popular music as well as the relationship between music and materiality. He is the author of the books Fado and the Place of Longing (2010), Nina Simone (2013) and The Late Voice (2015).

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