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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"vocality"”.
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Trans*Vocal: Documenting Gender Subjectivity Through Changing Vocality
… enculturated to produce. Drawing on theories of vocality (Eidsheim 2019; Azul 2015), transition (Constansis 2013; Constansis and Foteinou 2017), and improvisation (Caines 2021), I analyze the relationship between voice and perceptions of gender by exploring the concept of transition as it is …
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Answering machine, auto-tune, spectrograph : queer vocality through sonic technology
… feminist scholars for such nuanced portrayals of vocality; then, so as to answer those calls, it stages scenes of listening. I examine vocality through technology: by looking at how vocality is structured by enclosing technologies, which in turn structure relations and the reverse. More …
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Female vocality in theatre : sounding, hearing, and structures of feeling re-framed
… the possibility of the presence of a female vocality. The term 'female vocality' is used to refer to multiple aspects of the voice(s) of women in theatre; as performers, as playwrights and as theatre makers. It refers to both the sound of the voice and the structural elements of performance …
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The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice
<p>Every vocal training technique relies on understandings of how a singer’s “voice,” both literal and metaphorical, participates in the act of interpreting the works of composers. Western classical singing, as codified by the early twentieth century, typically puts the singer in the role of the …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
… mining and metallurgy with reproduction and vocality. My analysis emphasises how the invention of nature was accomplished, in part, through a metallurgical reclassification of the voices and sexualities of women as indiscrete phenomena: womb, mouth, and voice were elided with mining and …
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Understanding the operatic tenor's legitimate head voice: A comparative study of historical and modern pedagogical approaches
… century. Notwithstanding this change in tenor vocality, the practice of register-blending or -unification, originally developed by the castrati as a means of extending their voices upwards with a seamless transition to the falsetto register, has remained a core element of classical voice …
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… the instability of meaning by employing multi-vocality, irony, parody and images of doubles.
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Vocal analogues: A Cultural History of Technological Voice Imitation
… within mechanical and digital representations of vocality, this thesis traces the cultural history and logic of vocal imitations up to the deepfake. From the vocal analogues of the first documented mechanical speakers in the late 18<sup>th</sup> century, to the AI vocal recreation of deceased …
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Reading smallness: micro-spatial constructions in South Africa's literature of the interregnum
… between smallness and protest, smallness and vocality, smallness and poetry. I argue that micro-spaces are not only abundant in the literature of South Africa's political transition but also yield unique insights into the stubborn extension of its interregnum.
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… This study points to a progressive sense of vocality, agency, and empowerment for the DREAM-eligible youth involved in this social movement. Finally, this study offers a discussion about the current state of the DREAM Act and includes suggestions and implications for the future of the social …
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The persistence of the oral: on the enduring importance of the human voice
… absence of the audible voice, a study of vocality can enrich our understanding of both face-to-face and electronically-mediated communication. The commentary describes the phenomenological orientation of the outputs. Using the interdisciplinary approach of psycho-social studies to explore …
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Wagner's Meistersinger and the tradition of comic opera
… his debt to the traditions of comic opera. The vocality of his protagonists owe much to the traditions of comic opera and the music is far more diatonic than in his other late works. Conventions of subject matter that he appropriates include characters derived from the commedia dell'arte, a plot …
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Poetry and Performance: Listening to a Multi-vocal Canada
… polyphony as a textual representation of multi-vocality in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst. Through a close-listening to a musical poem by Jan Zwicky, the Conclusion points towards new critical directions in listening to Canadian poetry. Only in understanding how cultural and political …
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Everyday Heritage, Spatio-temporal Dynamics and Place-making: Rethinking the Social Production of London’s Chinatown on the Backdrop of COVID-19
… heritage discourses and acknowledge the multi-vocality of the place. If London’s Chinatown is to be adopted as a platform for anti-racist ESEA activism, it is crucial to challenge the normalised ethnicity-centred way of seeing the place, address intersectional inequalities, and foster …
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Sounds without Borders: Industry, Society and the Voice in Giallo Cinema
… to pitch the silence of the rural against the vocality of the urban. The films use silence and the voice as ‘cartographic’ tools to delineate the profound socio-economic divisions between Italy’s rural South and its more urban North, but they also illustrate the giallo’s underlying affinities …