Essays About Disability

Speaking and Singing in Beauty: Marianne Faithfull’s Vocal Authority

By Alexandra Apolloni

What makes a voice sound beautiful, or meaningful, or authoritative? And what is at stake for singers when the vocal sounds associated with authority originated from a history of harm? On her most recent album, She Walks in Beauty (2021), singer Marianne Faithfull probes these questions by musically re-imagining the… Read More