Research Catalog

Title

The voice as something more : essays toward materiality / edited by Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin ; with an afterword by Mladen Dolar.

Author

International Conference "A Voice as Something More" (2015 : Chicago, Ill.), author.

Publication

• Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Feldman, Martha
• Zeitlin, Judith T., 1958-
• Dolar, Mladen

Description

xv, 375 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm.

Series Statement

New material histories of music

Uniform Title

New material histories of music.

Subjects

• Voice
• Singing
• Voice (Philosophy)
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics

Note

• Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More", held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : The clamor of voices / Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin -- Part I. Sound-producing voice. Speech and/in song / Steven Rings ; From the natural to the instrumental : Chinese theories of the sounding voice before the modern era / Judith T. Zeitlin -- Part II. Limit cases. Voice, music, modernism : the case of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen ; Screamlines : on the anatomy and geology of radio / Neil Verma -- Part III. Vocal owners and borrowed voices. It's all by someone else / Robert Polito ; The artist's impression : Ethel Waters as mimic / Laurie Stras ; "I am an essentialist" : against the voice itself / James Q. Davies -- Part IV. Myth, wound, and gap. Is the voice a myth? : a rereading of Ovid / Shane Butler ; Voice gap crack break / Martha Feldman ; The Gesamtkunstwerk and its discontents : the wounded voice in (and around) Alexander von Zemlinsky's The dwarf / David J. Levin ; There is no such thing as the composer's voice / Seth Brodsky -- Part V. Interlude : the gendered voice. Vowels/consonants : the legend of a "gendered" (sexual) difference told by cinema / Michel Chion, translated by Zakir Paul -- Part VI. Technology, difference, and the uncanny. The prosthetic voice in Ancient Greece / Sarah Nooter ; The duppy in the machine ; voice and technology in Jamaican popular music / Andrew F. Jones ; The actor's absent voice : silent cinema and the archives of kabuki in prewar Japan / Jonathan Zwicker ; A voice that is not mine : terror and mythology of the technological voice / Tom Gunning -- Afterword. Voices that matter / Mladen Dolar.

Call Number

JME 20-86

ISBN

• 9780226656397
• 022665639X
• 9780226647173
• 022664717X

LCCN

2019005340

OCLC

1085638153

Conference

International Conference "A Voice as Something More" (2015 : Chicago, Ill.), author.

Title

The voice as something more : essays toward materiality / edited by Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin ; with an afterword by Mladen Dolar.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New material histories of music

New material histories of music.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Feldman, Martha, editor.

Zeitlin, Judith T., 1958- editor.

Dolar, Mladen, writer of afterword.

Research Call Number

JME 20-86

JME 21-328