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Post by Progenitor A on Aug 31, 2018 15:01:37 GMT 1
Came downstairs this morning from my ablutions to hear a strange raucous voice 'singing' on R4 Women's Hour. I looked at my quizzically to be told that it was 'Gender-free singing'. I can only assume that the overtones that distinguish the female voice from the male voice were missing and the voice inhabited a hinterland between these two sets. That is what it sounded like to me
But what of the counter-tenors such as Scholl and Bowers - will these now be reclassified as trans-gender singers, or will they be accused of gender appropriation?
I sometimes think that I have outlived my usefulness on this earth that is seemingly peopled by mad-men, mad-women and mad-transgenderists
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Post by alancalverd on Aug 31, 2018 15:59:41 GMT 1
I have sung with a female lead tenor who could overlap my baritone range. Eartha Kitt and Cleo Laine used to push jazz standards "southwards" with great effect. Throat music has been "gender neutral" for as long as anyone can remember. Problem is that the BBC can no longer afford talent or technique, so they take any old crap and call it something new. See, for example, Strictly Come Glitterballs with Thighs and Fifteen Seconds of Amateur Dancing.
Test Match Special, on the other hand, continues to be the best radio program ever, about anything. And quite possibly the cheapest.
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Post by jonjel on Sept 5, 2018 15:51:32 GMT 1
I have sung with a female lead tenor who could overlap my baritone range. Eartha Kitt and Cleo Laine used to push jazz standards "southwards" with great effect. Throat music has been "gender neutral" for as long as anyone can remember. Problem is that the BBC can no longer afford talent or technique, so they take any old crap and call it something new. See, for example, Strictly Come Glitterballs with Thighs and Fifteen Seconds of Amateur Dancing. Test Match Special, on the other hand, continues to be the best radio program ever, about anything. And quite possibly the cheapest. I know what PA alludes to. However I think that if your heard Cleo Laine or Eartha Kitt for the first time, not knowing anything about them there would be no doubt in your mind that they were women. |
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Post by alancalverd on Sept 6, 2018 21:43:03 GMT 1
Given a sufficiently narrow bandwidth, it is entirely possible to lose gender clues. This is becoming embarrassing now that the VHF aircraft band has been subdivided into 8.33 kHz slots. You know nothing about the controller or pilot you are talking to, but it's polite to say "thank you sir/ma'am" if he/she has been exceptionally helpful. How sad not to be certain.
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