The voice as something more : essays toward materiality

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edited by Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin ; with an afterword by Mladen Dolar

（New material histories of music）

The University of Chicago Press, 2019

Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More", held at the University of Chicago in November 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index

Speech and/in song / Steven Rings
From the natural to the instrumental : Chinese theories of the sounding voice before the modern era / Judith T. Zeitlin
Voice, music, modernism : the case of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen / Marcelle Pierson
Screamlines : on the anatomy and geology of radio / Neil Verma
It's all by someone else / Robert Polito
The artist's impression : Ethel Waters as mimic / Laurie Stras
"I am an essentialist" : against the voice itself / James Q. Davies
Is the voice a myth? : a rereading of Ovid / Shane Butler
Voice gap crack break / Martha Feldman
The Gesamtkunstwerk and its discontents : the wounded voice in (and around) Alexander von Zemlinsky's The dwarf / David J. Levin
There is no such thing as the composer's voice / Seth Brodsky
Vowels/consonants : the legend of a "gendered" (sexual) difference told by cinema / Michel Chion, translated by Zakir Paul
The prosthetic voice in Ancient Greece / Sarah Nooter
The duppy in the machine : voice and technology in Jamaican popular music / Andrew F. Jones
The actor's absent voice : silent cinema and the archives of kabuki in prewar Japan / Jonathan Zwicker
A voice that is not mine : terror and mythology of the technological voice / Tom Gunning