Lauren Elkin

A joyous feminist call-to-arms and cultural history exploring female singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding; for fans of Viv Albertine, Jia Tolentino, Olivia Laing

A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding

For millennia, women's 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.