1st Edition
Mattering Voices Studying Voice through New Materialisms
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
Biography
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano is a Voice Artist, Performance Philosopher, Researcher (PhD) at the Academy of Art and Design University of Gothenburg, Existential Counselor, 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.
