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COUNTERTENOR: DIRECTORS KEEP THKG I’M GAY
Illtratg this, actors playg homosexual characters manipulate their voic to produce “higher-pched, more melod, and ls barone voic” (Cartei and Reby 2011: 85), ditg a parture om the norm.
Studi dite that the lk is th ma to effemacy and homosexualy (Smyth, Jabs and Rogers 2003; Munson and Babel 2007).
Others take a ls direct approach: the genr signifiers are mixed, and while an assumptn of homosexualy is not ma immediately, one of viancy om the norm is. (2012) ‘Actg Gay: Male Actors Shift the Frequency Components of the Voic Towards Female Val When Playg Homosexual Characters’. The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexualy and the Mystery of Dire.