Paul Robeson's Voices

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Grant Olwage (Music Historian and Lecturer, Music Historian and Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Paul Robeson's Voices

Grant Olwage (Music Historian and Lecturer, Music Historian and Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 March 2024

Choral music; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Paul Robeson's Voices is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concert, and recorded performance, and as subject of identification. Olwage asks: how does the voice encapsulate modes of subjectivity, of being?

Combining deep archival research with musicological theory, this book is a study of voice as central to Robeson's sense of self and his politics. Paul Robeson's Voices charts the dialectal process of Robeson's vocal and self-discovery, documenting some of the ways Robeson's practice revised the traditions of concert singing in the first half of the twentieth century and how his voice manifested as resistance.

By: Grant Olwage (Music Historian and Lecturer Music Historian and Lecturer Wits School of Arts University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 156mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780197637470
ISBN 10: 0197637477
Pages: 374
Publication Date: 27 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Grant Olwage is a music historian and lecturer in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the editor of Composing Apartheid and has written extensively on the Black voice, race, choral cultures, and coloniality. His writing on Paul Robeson's singing, voice, and musical arts has appeared widely.

Reviews for Paul Robeson's Voices

"<""The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents.>"" - Nina Eidsheim, author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents. * Nina Eidsheim, Author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. *"