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Why Do People Sing? On Voice

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Why Do People Sing? On Voice

By Paddy Scannell

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About the book

While the human voice is a fundamental part of our everyday experience, it remains enigmatic in many ways.In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication, from language acquisition and recording technology, to the effects of the microphone on the voice and singing techniques. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and char...Show more

Interdisciplinary studies

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ISBN

9781509529421

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2019

Language

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1

Original title

Why Do People Sing? On Voice

Format

Hardcover

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