Keywords in Sound
David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, also published by Duke University Press.
Matt Sakakeeny is Associate Professor of Music at Tulane University, and the author of Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, also published by Duke University Press.
David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, also published by Duke University Press.
Matt Sakakeeny is Associate Professor of Music at Tulane University, and the author of Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, also published by Duke University Press.
A critical first step in denaturalizing the category of voice entails understanding the common and naturalized meanings “voice” has in English, and by extension, in the Euro-Western context. While the sonorous and material aspects of voice typically serve as the constitutive outside when “voice” is invoked in discourses about personal agency, cultural authenticity, and political power, they themselves often remain beyond the reach of critical analysis. This entry gives a brief sense of where these ideas have come from and discusses some critical responses to the binaries that underlie them. It then discusses four ways of understanding the production of...
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