Dear Screen-L:





The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:



Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media



Jacob Smith is Lecturer in the Institute of Film and Television 

Studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies, 

University of Nottingham.



http://go.ucpress.edu/VocalTracks



This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance 

styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the 

phonograph, radio, and sound film. Writing in a clear and lively 

style, Jacob Smith looks at these media technologies and industries 

through the lens of performance, bringing to light a fascinating 

nexus of performer, technology, and audience. Combining theories of 

film sound, cultural histories of sound technologies and industries, 

and theories of performance, Smith convincingly connects disparate 

and largely neglected performance niches to explore the development 

of a modern vocal performance. _Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound 

Media _demonstrates the voice to be a vehicle of performance, 

identity, and culture and illustrates both the interconnection of all 

these categories and their relation to the media technologies of the 

past century.





Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 

available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/VocalTracks



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