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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