Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin #foliosociety From John Clare to Lucille

From John Clare to Lucille Clifton to Kathleen Jamie

from its origins to its top drivers

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Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin #foliosociety From John Clare to LucilleA dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding. For millennia, womens raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous. Women singing were cast as sirens: mythical creatures who lured sailors to their death. In Vocal Break, Lauren Elkin seamlessly blends memoir, feminist manifesto and cultural history to explore a plurality of