Voicing Identity

Voicing Identity

Author: John Borrows

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1487544693

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Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the questions of who is qualified to engage in these activities and how this can be done appropriately and respectfully. The authors address these questions from their individual perspectives and experiences, often revealing their personal struggles and their ongoing attempts to resolve them. There is diversity in perspectives and approaches, but also a common goal: to conduct research and teach in respectful ways that enhance understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, and rights, and promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Bringing together contributors with diverse backgrounds and unique experiences, Voicing Identity will be of interest to students and scholars studying Indigenous issues as well as anyone seeking to engage in the work of making Canada a model for just relations between the original peoples and newcomers.


Shakespeare's Accents

Shakespeare's Accents

Author: Sonia Massai

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1108429629

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A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.


Culturally Speaking

Culturally Speaking

Author: Amanda Nell Edgar

Publisher: Intersectional Rhetorics

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780814214060

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Examines racial and gendered dimensions of voice in American culture, showing how vocal sound helps to shape cultural power dynamics.


Voicing Chicana Feminisms

Voicing Chicana Feminisms

Author: Aida Hurtado

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0814735738

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Focusing on the voices of young women, this book explores the relationship between Chicana feminism and the actual experiences of Chicanas today.


The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory

Author: S.J. Hannahs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 1317382137

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The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary approaches to phonology. Phonology is frequently defined as the systematic organisation of the sounds of human language. For some, this includes aspects of both the surface phonetics together with systematic structural properties of the sound system; for others, phonology is seen as distinct from, and autonomous from, phonetics. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory surveys the differing ways in which phonology is viewed, with a focus on current approaches to phonology. Divided into two parts, this handbook: covers major conceptual frameworks within phonology, including: rule-based phonology; Optimality Theory; Government Phonology; Dependency Phonology; and connectionist approaches to generative phonology; explores the central issue of the relationship between phonetics and phonology; features 23 chapters written by leading academics from around the world. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory is an authoritative survey of this key field in linguistics, and is essential reading for students studying phonology.


Encounter, Transformation, and Identity

Encounter, Transformation, and Identity

Author: Ian Fowler

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1845459342

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Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.


Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities

Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities

Author: Christian Utz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-04

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 113615521X

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Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of identity produced by human (and artificial) voices. The essays proceed from different angles, notably sociocultural and historical contexts, philosophical and literary aesthetics, vocal technique, analysis of vocal microstructures, text/phonetics-music-relationships, historical vocal sources or models for contemporary art and pop music, and areas of conflict between vocalization, "ethnicity," and cultural identity. They pinpoint crucial topical features that have shaped identity-discourses in art and popular musical situations since the1950s, with a special focus on the past two decades. The volume thus offers a unique compilation of texts on the human voice in a period of heightened cultural globalization by utilizing systematic methodological research and firsthand accounts on compositional practice by current Asian and Western authors.


Leading Change

Leading Change

Author: Paul Lawrence

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2014-12-03

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0749471697

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It is often claimed that 70% of organizational change efforts fail, despite the popularity of linear change models. However these linear approaches to change are often based on the premise that change is predictable and straightforward, when actually change is complex, with the 'human' element often changing the functioning of the organizational system as a whole. Leading Change provides the practical framework that allows leaders to actively engage with a complex adaptive system to bring about successful organizational change. Supported by academic research, and grounded with a range of examples and cases, the book offers a genuine, viable alternative to existing approaches.


Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance

Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance

Author: Liam Jarvis

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1350159328

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In the context of the postdigital age, where technology is increasingly part of our social and political world, Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance traces how identity can be created, developed, hijacked, manipulated, sabotaged and explored through performance in postdigital cultures. Considering how technology is reshaping performance, this timely collection reveals how we engage in performance practices through expanded notions of intermediality, knotted networks and layering. This book examines the artist as activist and producer of avatars, and how digital doubles, artificial intelligence and semi-automated politics are problematizing and expanding our discussions of identity. Using a range of examples in theatre, film and internet-based performance practices, chapters examine the uncertain boundaries of networked 'informational selves' in mediatized cultures, the impacts of machine algorithms, apps and the consequences of digital legacies. Case studies include James Cameron's Avatar, Blast Theory's Karen, Ontroerend Goed's A Game of You, Randy Rainbow's online videos, Sisters Grimm's Calpurnia Descending, Dead Centre's Lippy and Chekhov's First Play and Jo Scott's practice-as-research in 'place-mixing'. This is an incisive study for scholars, students and practitioners interested in the wider conversations around identity-formation in postdigital cultures.


Sounding Bodies

Sounding Bodies

Author: Ann Cahill

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1350169609

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“In compelling and intricately argued ways, the authors make a resounding case for understanding how vocal sonority is intrinsic to self-identity and self-reception ... Required Reading.” - Jane Boston, Principal Lecturer, Voice Studies, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama A new, provocative study of the ethical, political, and social meanings of the everyday voice. Utilising the framework of feminist philosophy, authors Ann J. Cahill and Christine Hamel approach the phenomenon of voice as a lived, sonorous and embodied experience marked by the social structures that surround it, including systemic forms of injustice such as ableism, sexism, racism, and classism. By developing novel theoretical constructs such as “intervocality” and “respiratory responsibility,” Cahill and Hamel cut through the static between theory and praxis and put forward exciting theories on how human vocal sound can perpetuate -- and challenge -- persistent inequalities. Sounding Bodies presents a powerful model of how the seemingly disparate disciplines of philosophy and voice/speech training can, in conversation with each other, generate illuminating insights about our vocal lives and identities.