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[The Farmer's Wife] is a manifesto: every woman has the right to choose the life they want

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Vocal Break : On Women, Music and Power - Lauren Elkin Genre:Memoirs [The Farmer's Wife] is aA dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding'It took me ten years to go from shy young girl to punk rocker, if I'd had this book I'd have got there much quicker' Viv AlbertineFor 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