Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power Gift Books Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason knows and

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason knows and feels the transformative power of music as much as any musician alive

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Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power Gift Books Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason knows andFor 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