Category: Volume 24 – Number 3 – May 2014
Notes on Contributors
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Zeynep Bulut is a Lecturer in Music at King’s College London. Her most recent publication, “Singing and a song: The Intimate Difference in Susan Philipsz’s Lowlands,” appeared in the volume Gestures of Music Theatre: The Performativity of Song and Dance (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her monograph, Skin-Voice: Contemporary Music Between Speech and Language (in progress), examines the […]
“The Secular Prophet”
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Alex Porco (bio) UNC-Wilmington porcoa@uncw.edu A review of Ken Babstock, On Malice, Toronto: Coach House Books, 2014. Over the last few years, a great evil has been descending over our world . . . – Stephen Harper (qtd. in Chase and Leblanc) The Canadian Prime Minister made his observation on January 30, […]
The Geopolitics of Food and the Environmental Humanities
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Yeonhaun Kang (bio) University of Florida yhkang21@ufl.edu A review of Allison Carruth, Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. Print. In October 2004, the first Terra Madre conference, an international network of food communities, was held in Turin, Italy, bringing together 5,000 small-scale food producers, chefs, […]
Aesthetic Regime Change
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Ian Balfour (bio) York University ibalfour@yorku.ca A review of Jacques Rancière, Aisthesis. New York: Verso, 2013. It’s something of an accident that Jacques Rancière did not become a household name much earlier in the English-speaking world of theory and criticism. Though he took part in and wrote for Louis Althusser’s project Reading Capital in the late […]
Un/Voicing the Self: Vocal Pedagogy and the Discourse-Practices of Subjectivation
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Annette Schlichter (bio) University of California, Irvine aschlich@uci.edu Abstract This essay uses the popular vocal pedagogy of voice teacher Kristin Linklater as a paradigmatic example to interpret the discourse-practices of voice training within a Foucauldian framework as a form of subjectivation in contemporary US culture. In Schlichter’s cultural analysis, complemented by participatory research, voice […]
Crippled Speech
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Caitlin Marshall (bio) University of California, Berkeley caitlinmarshall@berkeley.edu Abstract QuietBob97 is an alaryngeal speaker who foregrounds prosthetic voices in a series of sound-only YouTube videos. With performances designed to retrain a listener’s ear for different voices, QuietBob aspires to dismantle the stigma of un-naturalness that places the humanness of his voice (and his self) […]
The Resonance of Brando’s Voice
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Katherine Kinney (bio) University of California, Riverside katherine.kinney@ucr.edu Abstract Like the material voice, film acting has long been rendered abstract and disembodied, eclipsed by the privileging of the visual over the aural and language over speech in film studies. Attention to the actor’s voice challenges these assumptions and opens new ways to understand embodiment, […]
Silence and Speech in “Lecture on Nothing” and “Phonophonie”
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Zeynep Bulut (bio) King’s College London zeynep.bulut@kcl.ac.uk Abstract This article discusses the ways that experimental music and deaf performance critique the presumed limits of hearing, voice, silence, and speech. It analyzes artist and scholar Brandon LaBelle’s rendition of John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing, which features an audio recording of the text read by a […]
Tubercular Singing
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David Kasunic (bio) Occidental College kasunic@oxy.edu Abstract As the first death by tuberculosis on the operatic stage, Violetta’s death in Verdi’s La traviata (1853) raises questions about the origins of tubercular singing and how early audiences made sense of it. This essay finds answers to these questions in the medical, musical, and fictional literature […]
The Micropolitics of Listening to Vocal Timbre
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Nina Sun Eidsheim (bio) University of California, Los Angeles neidsheim@ucla.edu Abstract Why are notions about voice and race that are no longer supported by research still reproduced? Through ethnography work on classical vocal training in southern California in the early twenty-first century, this article demonstrates that listeners—teacher and audiences—project intention and identity onto vocal […]
Introduction: Voice Matters
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Annette Schlichter (bio) University of California, Irvine aschlich@uci.edu Nina Sun Eidsheim (bio) University of California, Los Angeles neidsheim@ucla.edu “… the voice is there to be forgotten in its materiality; only at this cost does it fill its primary function.”—Michel Chion “Sound is a little piece of the vibrating world.”—Jonathan Sterne Voice plays a […]