Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power Gift Books Dimensions: 130 × 130 ×

Dimensions: 130 × 130 × 300 mm

20 printed booklets in box | 157 x 115 x 45mm | Contains adult content

Vibrant colourways with hand-finished detailing

opening at Hayward Gallery in January 2014

so integral to the history of art in the 20th century

Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power Gift Books Dimensions: 130 × 130 ×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 female singing voices and how women have used them to defy convention, genre, capitalism, racism and sexism. Drawing on her own experiences training as a young