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Karmen MacKendrick, “The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings” (Fordham UP, 2016)

New Books in Sound Studies

English - August 19, 2017 14:40 - 49 minutes - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Philosophers have long tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. But voices resonate among bodies and texts; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. Voices also give...
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Philosophers have long tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. But voices resonate among bodies and texts; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. Voices also give...

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