The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings

by Karmen MacKendrick

Book Overview

Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. But voices are also meaningful--they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823270009
• ISBN13: 9780823270002
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"