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

by Richard Elliott and Richard Elliott

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501332147
• ISBN13: 9781501332142
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"