The Voice as Something More Essays Toward Materiality - New Material Histories of Music

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of desire and material object.   Using Mladen Dolar's influential A Voice and Nothing More as a reference point, The Voice as Something More reorients Dolar's psychoanalytic analysis around the material dimensions of voices-their physicality and timbre, the fleshiness of their mechanisms, the veils that hide them, and the devices that enhance and distort them. Throughout, the essays put the body back in voice. Ending with a new essay by Dolar that offers reflections on these vocal aesthetics and paradoxes, this authoritative, multidisciplinary collection, ranging from Europe and the Americas to East Asia, from classics and music to film and literature, will serve as an essential entry point for scholars and students who are thinking toward materiality.

ISBN:	9780226647173
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Imprint:	The University of Chicago Press
Published date:	30 Sep 2019
DEWEY:	783
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xv, 375
Weight:	582g
Height:	153mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	22mm

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