Mattering Voices

Studying Voice through New Materialisms
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-48002-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Voice Studies

Mattering Voices advances mutually enriching relationships in-between the transdisciplinary fields of voice studies and new materialisms.

This is the first edited volume to explore how the theoretical, methodological, and analytical possibilities of both voice scholarship and new materialisms gain further depth and directions through their co-constitutive—intra-active—relationality. In this book, voice researchers from performance studies and philosophy, artistic research, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, feminist and gender research, and educational studies develop new materialisms-influenced approaches to voice and voice studies-inspired adaptations of new materialisms in the empirical study of various kinds of voicing. The topics covered range from voice in artistic practices and contemporary academia to new notions of musicality and vocal atmospheres, as well as the significance of singing in gendered senses of self and interspecies relations. By experimenting with intra-actions of voice studies and new materialisms, the book proposes fresh ways of researching and grasping how voices matter: how they materialize as events and practices and acquire meanings.

As a polyphony of voices, this volume invites readers into entangled conversations about how voice emerges— creating modes of being, knowing, and co-existing—and what it might still become.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarvainen, Anne

Laasonen Belgrano, Elisabeth

Tiainen, Milla

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpädagogik, Gesangspädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Akustik, Tontechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Series Foreword

Foreword: “Mattering Voices”

Jon Ivan Gill

Introduction: How to let a crossroads emerge between (the study of) voices and new materialisms?

Milla Tiainen, Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano & Anne Tarvainen

Part I: Voicing ontologies

Chapter 1: Voice: An imaginary figure of any thing

Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano & Mark D. Price

Chapter 2: The Onto-ethico-aesthetic force of musicality

Jannie Pranger

Part II: Voicing intra-active human agencies

Chapter 3: Trans-corpo-vocality: Voice, gender, and environment in Demian Seesjärvi’s transmasculine senses of self

Milla Tiainen

Chapter 4: “The Body vibrates with the power of singing:” Material, somaesthetic, and transactional features in the vocal experiences of singers with acid reflux

Anne Tarvainen

Chapter 5: Caring, touching, voicing. On how voice comes to voice in academia
Monika Rogowska-Stangret & Malou Juelskjær

Part III: Voicing the more-than-human

Chapter 6: Motor-mouthing

Julieanna Preston

Chapter 7: The Non-standard performance with the singing theremin

Tero Nauha

Chapter 8: Cow choirs: Singing-with more-than-human herds

Jennie Tiderman-Österberg

Chapter 9: Speaking of atmospheres: more-than voice and voice of the more-than

Norie Neumark

Afterword

Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano is a voice artist, performance philosopher, existential counsellor, and priest in the Church of Sweden.

Anne Tarvainen is an ethnomusicologist (PhD) specializing in the embodied, experiential, and cultural meanings of voice. She is currently a senior research fellow at the University of Eastern Finland.

Milla Tiainen is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku and Associate Professor of Musicology (Title of Docent) at the University of Helsinki.