Description
More than 200 years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices that speak from any- and everywhere. We interact daily with voices that emit from house alarm systems, cars, telephones, and digital assistants, such as Alexa and Google Home. However, vocal events still have the capacity to raise age-old questions about the human, the animal, the machine, and the spiritual-or in non-metaphysical terms-questions about identity and authenticity. In The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies, contributors look to the metaphorical voice as well as the clinical understanding of the vocal apparatus to answer the seemingly innocuous question: What is voice?From a range of disciplines including the humanities, biology, culture, and technology studies, contributors draw on the unique methodologies and values each has at hand to address the uses, meanings, practices, theories, methods, and sounds of the voice. Together, they assess the ways that discipline-specific, ontological, and epistemological assumptions of voice need to shift in order to take the findings of other fields into account. This Handbook thus enables a lively discussion as multifaceted and complex as the voice itself has proven to be.
Table of Contents
IntroductionNina Sun Eidsheim and Katherine MeizelI. Framing Voice: Voice as a Carrier of MeaningFrontispiece. What is Voice?Yoko Ono (with Juliette Bellocq and Jessica Fleischmann, graphic design)1. What Was the Voice?Shane Butler2. Object, Person, Machine, or What: Practical Ontologies of VoiceMatt Rahaim3. Singing High: Black Countertenors and Gendered Sound in Gospel PerformanceAlisha Lola JonesII. Changing Voice: Voice as Barometer4. Medical Care of Voice DisordersRobert T. Sataloff and Mary J. Hawkshaw5. Fluid Voices: Processes and Practices in Singing ImpersonationKatherine Meizel and Ronald C. Scherer6. This American Voice: The Odd Timbre of a New Standard in Public RadioTom McEnaney7. The Voice of Feeling: Liberal Subjects, Music, and the Cinematic SpeechDan WangIII. Active Voice: Voice as Politics8. Trans/forming White Noise: Gender, Race, and Dis/ability in the Music of Joe StevensElias Krell9. Voice in Charismatic LeadershipRosario Signorello10. Challenging Voices: Re-Listening to Marshallese Histories of the PresentJessica A. Schwartz and April L. Brown11. Voice Dipped in Black: The Louisville Project and the Birth of Black Radical Argument in College Debate PolicyShanara R. Reid-BrinkleyIV. Sensing Voice: Voice as (Multi-)Sensory Phenomenon12. Voiceness in Musical InstrumentsCornelia Fales13. The Evolution of Voice PerceptionKatarzyna Pisanski and Gregory A. Bryant14. Acoustic Slits and Vocal Incongruences in Los Angeles Union StationNina Sun Eidsheim15. Tuning a Throat Song in Inner Asia: On the Nature of Vocal Gifts with People's Xöömeizhi of the Tyva Republic Valeriy Mongush (b. 1953)Robert O. BeahrsV. Producing Voice: Vocal Modalities16. The Echoing Palimpsest: Singing and the Experience of Time at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of ConstantinopleAlexander K. Khalil17. Laryngeal Dynamics of Taan Gestures in Indian Classical SingingNandhakumar Radhakrishnan, Ronald C. Scherer, and Santanu Bandyopadhyay18. Proximity/Infinity: The Mediated Voice in Mobile MusicMiriama Young19. When Robots Speak on Screen: Imagining the Cinemechanical IdealJennifer FleegerVI. Negotiating Voice: Voice as Transaction20. Robot Imams!: Standardizing, Centralizing, and Debating the Voice of Islam in Millennial TurkeyEve McPherson21. Singing and Praying among Korean Christian Converts (1896-1915): a Trans-Pacific Genealogy of the Modern Korean VoiceHyun Kyong Hannah Chang22. Building the Broadway VoiceJake JohnsonEpilogue23. Defining and Studying Voice across Disciplinary BoundariesJody Kreiman
