Introduction
Nina Sun Eidsheim and Katherine Meizel
I. Framing Voice: Voice as a Carrier of Meaning
Frontispiece. What is Voice?
Yoko Ono (with Juliette Bellocq and Jessica Fleischmann, graphic
design)
1. What Was the Voice?
Shane Butler
2. Object, Person, Machine, or What: Practical Ontologies of
Voice
Matt Rahaim
3. Singing High: Black Countertenors and Gendered Sound in Gospel
Performance
Alisha Lola Jones
II. Changing Voice: Voice as Barometer
4. Medical Care of Voice Disorders
Robert T. Sataloff and Mary J. Hawkshaw
5. Fluid Voices: Processes and Practices in Singing
Impersonation
Katherine Meizel and Ronald C. Scherer
6. This American Voice: The Odd Timbre of a New Standard in Public
Radio
Tom McEnaney
7. The Voice of Feeling: Liberal Subjects, Music, and the Cinematic
Speech
Dan Wang
III. Active Voice: Voice as Politics
8. Trans/forming White Noise: Gender, Race, and Dis/ability in the
Music of Joe Stevens
Elias Krell
9. Voice in Charismatic Leadership
Rosario Signorello
10. Challenging Voices: Re-Listening to Marshallese Histories of
the Present
Jessica A. Schwartz and April L. Brown
11. Voice Dipped in Black: The Louisville Project and the Birth of
Black Radical Argument in College Debate Policy
Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley
IV. Sensing Voice: Voice as (Multi-)Sensory Phenomenon
12. Voiceness in Musical Instruments
Cornelia Fales
13. The Evolution of Voice Perception
Katarzyna Pisanski and Gregory A. Bryant
14. Acoustic Slits and Vocal Incongruences in Los Angeles Union
Station
Nina Sun Eidsheim
15. 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. Beahrs
V. Producing Voice: Vocal Modalities
16. The Echoing Palimpsest: Singing and the Experience of Time at
the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Alexander K. Khalil
17. Laryngeal Dynamics of Taan Gestures in Indian Classical
Singing
Nandhakumar Radhakrishnan, Ronald C. Scherer, and Santanu
Bandyopadhyay
18. Proximity/Infinity: The Mediated Voice in Mobile Music
Miriama Young
19. When Robots Speak on Screen: Imagining the Cinemechanical
Ideal
Jennifer Fleeger
VI. Negotiating Voice: Voice as Transaction
20. Robot Imams!: Standardizing, Centralizing, and Debating the
Voice of Islam in Millennial Turkey
Eve McPherson
21. Singing and Praying among Korean Christian Converts
(1896-1915): a Trans-Pacific Genealogy of the Modern Korean
Voice
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
22. Building the Broadway Voice
Jake Johnson
Epilogue
23. Defining and Studying Voice across Disciplinary Boundaries
Jody Kreiman
Nina Sun Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology and Special Assistant
to Dean, the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California,
Los Angeles. She has previously authored Sensing Sound: Singing and
Listening as Vibrational Practice (2015) and The Sound of Race:
Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music
(2019).
Katherine Meizel is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at
Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her book Idolized: Music,
Media, and Identity in American Idol was published in 2011, and she
wrote on American Idol for Slate from 2007 to 2011.
"...the value of this collection is incontestable. Curating a dialogue between apparently irreconcilable perspectives, Eidsheim and Meizel show how much is to be gained from interacting across and beyond boundaries." -- Juliana M. Pistorius, Transposition
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