Voice

The deployment of human voices, usually in song, is a core element of all music cultures. As a highly effective form of verbal and non-verbal communication singing instantaneously conveys narrative, context and emotion through the singer's particular range of expressive capabilities.

This thematic collection, drawing on book and journal material includes research the focuses on the human voice in music. The highlighted/key books are those where the vocal techniques are a major focus of the book's analysis. The collection does not concentrate singers or songwriting except where vocal techniques and emphasized.