Volume 26 (2022)
Letter from the Editors
Lisa Barg, Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, and Kimberly White
“Mother City”: Mothering Work, Coloured Respectability, and the Making of Contemporary Kaapse Klopse
Francesca Inglese
Bess Disembodied: Camilla Williams’s (Re)Sounding of Black Womanhood in
Porgy and Bess
Annie Kim
“Thus Do All Women”: Comedy, Sentimentality, Ambiguity, and a Così fan tutte for the #MeToo Era
Camille Rogers
Partial Special issue: Music, Sound, Maternity
Introduction
Erin Johnson-Williams and Michelle Meinhart
Performing Maternal Suffering on the Operatic Stage: The Case of Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust
Molly C. Doran
Silencing “Savage” Soundscapes: Hearing C-Section Births in the British Imperial Record
Erin Johnson-Williams
“Is Your Baby Getting Enough Music?”: Musical Interventions into Gestational Labor
Eric Drott and Marie Thompson
Contractions, Cries, and COVID: The Traumatic Soundscapes of UK Lockdown Hospital Maternity Wards
Michelle Meinhart
Reviews
Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India, by Amanda Weidman
Elizabeth Kramer
Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Candace Bailey
Lucy Caplan
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, by Maureen Mahon
Kamilla Arku
The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material, Symbolic, and Aesthetic Dimensions, by Serena Facci and Michela Garda, eds.
Elizabeth L. Keathley
