How High Should Boys Sing? : Gender, Authenticity and Credibility in the Young Male Voice

A substantial grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council has enabled the production of a multi-media resource for schools, choirs and youth organizations called Boys Keep Singing. Based on the contents of this book, the resource shows how, once the interest of boys is captured in primary schools, their singing can be sustained and developed through the difficult but vital early secondary years of ages 11 - 14, about which this book says so much. The resource is lavishly illustrated by short films of boys singing, supported by interviews with boys and their teachers, and a wealth of of animated diagrams and cartoons.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
The background
Singing as social control of boyhood
The physiology of the young male voice
Subjectivity and agency in the young male voice
Admiration of the boy
A child doing a man's work in a man's world
Angels in the marketplace
We can't sing like men, so we won't sing at all
Ambassadors and mediators
The future
Index