Sounding Bodies

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<br/>A new provocative study of the ethical political and social meanings of the everyday voice.<br/>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.<br/><i>Sounding Bodies</i> 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.