Helena Uambembe

Margaret Elysia Garcia

social and metaphysical traditions (music

and extracts from his notebooks illustrating actual examples of the landscapes he describes

In Snowy Tower Shaw gives a highly original telling of the grail epic Parzival

The Gender of Sound Offset Helena UambembeHuman history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category. From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson