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

Author/creator International Conference "A Voice as Something More"
Other author Feldman, Martha.
Other author Zeitlin, Judith T., 1958-
Other author Dolar, Mladen.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Descriptionxv, 375 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
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SeriesNew material histories of music
New material histories of music. UNAUTHORIZED
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.
General notePapers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More", held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2019005340
ISBN9780226656397 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN9780226647173 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book