Mismatched Women - The Siren's Song Through the Machine - Paperback - 2014

This book tells the history of sound machines through singers whose bodies and voices do not match. Jennifer Fleeger explores this phenomenon, moving from the fictional Trilby to the reallife Youtube star Susan Boyle, and demonstrating along the way that singers with voices that do not match their bodies are essential to the success of technologies for preserving and sharing music.

Year of publication: 2014
Pagination: 264 pages, black white illustrations, figures
Format: Paperback
Serie: Oxford Music/Media Series