Voicing voicing: attuning to the material in studio recording the Lullaby Choir

Journal article

Abstract:: This article presents a close ethnographic reading of an intercultural community choir’s experience recording lullabies in a professional studio setting. Bringing together Chadwick’s (2020, 2021) posthuman voice analytics with interdisciplinary voice studies, I turn ethnographic ears to the voice-as-vocalised by attuning to its materialities and more-than-human entanglements. In so doing I work to trouble idealised conceptions of voice that permeate music education practice and research, including the tropes of giving voice, finding voice and collective voice that I deployed in co-developing and facilitating the Lullaby Choir itself. By interrogating naturalised regimes of aurality and voice, this article contributes to broader efforts that enliven the material and the bodily in music, education, and research – considered together and separately – gesturing to pedagogies of sensation.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: voice studies

community choir

pedagogies of sensation

sensory ethnography

posthuman voice analytics
Pubs id:: 2037980
Local pid:: pubs:2037980
Deposit date:: 2024-10-18

Copyright holder:: Samantha Sebastian Dieckmann
Rights statement:: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

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