The performative power of vocality / Virginie Magnat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magnat, Virginie, author.

Series:

Routledge voice studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2019.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"The Performative Power of Vocality offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Conventional treatment of voice in theatre and performance studies too often regards it as a subcategory of actor training, associated with the established methods that have shaped voice pedagogy within Western theatre schools, conservatories, and universities. This monograph significantly deviates from these dominant models through its investigation of the non-discursive, material, and affective efficacy of vocality, with a focus on orally transmitted vocal traditions. Drawing from her performance training, research collaborations, and commitment to cultural diversity, Magnat proposes a dialogical approach to vocality. Inclusive of established, current, and emerging research perspectives, this approach sheds light on the role of vocality as a vital source of embodied knowledge, creativity, and well-being grounded in process, practice, and place, as well as a form of social and political agency. An excellent resource for qualitative researchers, artist-scholars, and activists seeking to legitimize the cognitive potential of vocal practice and decolonize dominant approaches to voice pedagogy, The Performative Power of Vocality opens up new avenues of understanding across Indigenous and Western philosophy, performance studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound and voice studies, anthropology, sociology, phenomenology, cognitive science, physics, ecology, and biomedicine"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Performance, Embodiment, and Vocality

Reclaiming Presence for the Lived Voice

Exploring (K)new Paradigms

Vocality as Source, Resource, and Potentiality.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000710755

1000710750

9781000709971

1000709973

9780429340338

0429340338

OCLC:

1107144480

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429340338