Let Me Clear My Throat Essays

Name: Let Me Clear My Throat Essays
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ISBN: 9781936747450

ISBN-10: 1936747456

ISBN-13: 9781936747450

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elena Passarello

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From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the Voyager spacecraft,Let Me Clear My Throatdissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum with significance and emotion. There are murders of punk rock crows, impressionists, and rebel yells; Howard Dean's "BYAH!" and Marlon Brando's "Stella!" and a stock film yawp that has made cameos in movies fromA Star is BorntoSpaceballs. The voice is thought's incarnating instrument and Elena Passarello's essays are a riotous deconstruction of the ways the sounds we make both express and shape who we are—the annotated soundtrack of us giving…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English