Shattering Gleam: A Podcast About Music and Gender
SiriusXM
9 episodes
3 months ago
From Prince’s vocal personas to Beyoncé and Britney’s feminist takes on sexy cyborgs, many social revolutions have started in the recording studio. Host Sasha Geffen, music critic and author of ‘Glitter Up the Dark,’ digs beneath the grit and the glamour to reveal how pop stars have re-shaped gender through music, blazing a trail for those who refuse to be categorized. Hear music from the show and more on the Shattering Gleam Official Playlist at https://pandora.app.link/ShatteringGleamPlaylist.
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From Prince’s vocal personas to Beyoncé and Britney’s feminist takes on sexy cyborgs, many social revolutions have started in the recording studio. Host Sasha Geffen, music critic and author of ‘Glitter Up the Dark,’ digs beneath the grit and the glamour to reveal how pop stars have re-shaped gender through music, blazing a trail for those who refuse to be categorized. Hear music from the show and more on the Shattering Gleam Official Playlist at https://pandora.app.link/ShatteringGleamPlaylist.
Musical Shape-Shifting: The Many Pitches of Prince
Shattering Gleam: A Podcast About Music and Gender
30 minutes 36 seconds
3 years ago
Musical Shape-Shifting: The Many Pitches of Prince
How do our ears gender vocal pitch, and what happens when artists intentionally play with this? Sasha Geffen introduces us to a long, dynamic history of how artists like Kanye West, Parliament Funkadelic and more have experimented with vocal pitch in different ways, but with a focus on the legendary Prince. Professor Susan Rogers, Prince’s sound engineer, gives us the inside scoop on Prince’s fascination with creating personas and a story about musical revenge...through pitch-shifting.
Shattering Gleam: A Podcast About Music and Gender
From Prince’s vocal personas to Beyoncé and Britney’s feminist takes on sexy cyborgs, many social revolutions have started in the recording studio. Host Sasha Geffen, music critic and author of ‘Glitter Up the Dark,’ digs beneath the grit and the glamour to reveal how pop stars have re-shaped gender through music, blazing a trail for those who refuse to be categorized. Hear music from the show and more on the Shattering Gleam Official Playlist at https://pandora.app.link/ShatteringGleamPlaylist.
