Singing out

The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media

Catherine Haworth, Beth Carroll

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Edinburgh University Press
08 July 2025

Musicals

Series: Music and the Moving Image

Singing Out explores a broad range of singing voices and sung moments, from lavish film musical sequences, television and videogames, through to online platforms, advertising, and multimedia installation work. It illustrates the diverse ways in which the singing voice is produced and understood in different media across international contexts, taking into consideration issues such as corporeal form, age, race, reception, and gender.

The act of singing emphasises issues of identity, technology, and the identifying markers of the voice itself, heightening communication, acting as an aid to memory, and inviting judgement. Singing demarcates and breaks down textual and conceptual boundaries, and offers an intensity of experience that gives it a special status on the soundtrack.

Singing Out contains a range of approaches to the singing voice, offering students and researchers a variety of methodological and critical tools to understand the contemporary context and importance of singing in multimedia.

Edited by: Catherine Haworth, Beth Carroll
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399508209
ISBN 10: 1399508202
Series: Music and the Moving Image
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 08 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Catherine Haworth is Course Leader for Music and Music Technology at the University of Huddersfield. Her research focuses on musical practices of representation and identity across various media, with a particular interest in film and television music. Catherine has published on topics including the female detective in 1940s Hollywood; music, gender and medical discourse; women and music in James Bond; and celebrity culture in the film musical. She edited a special edition of Music, Sound and the Moving Image on gender and sexuality, and co-edited the collection Gender, Age and Musical Creativity.

Reviews for Singing out: The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media

From the first page, this collection sings! Carroll and Haworth have expertly edited a collection that is a necessary addition to numerous academic discourses, such as the musical, sound and voice studies, and one of the few sustained studies into singing in audio-visual media. Singing Out offers fascinating explorations about the body, stardom, technology and liveness through a range of perspectives on singing in reactions videos, biographical television dramas, performance art, video games and advertisements. Each chapter is unique in focus, but all share a rigorous approach to singing as worthy object of study, becoming a chorus of voices that hit all the right notes.-- ""Dr. Julie Lobalzo Wright, Associate Professor, University of Warwick""