Eidsheim 2019
Notes on Eidsheim (2019) Race of Sound introduction.pdf.
Introduces the idea of the ontological multiplicity of the voice, and argues that the voice is constructed by the listener. In conjunction with Sensing Sound's dissection of the figure of sound, provides a very interesting frame for the conceptual expansion of sound in a way that denaturalizes some of the limiting assumptions which plague the accounts of Dodd 2007 and O'Callaghan 2007.
tant to point out that “everything else” is not an objective set of data. It is the listener who detects timbre and who names the “everything else.”17 Indeed “like
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Comparing a large group that is distinguished into two groups—prepubescent boy and girl vocal apparatuses—there are no statistically significant physiological differences in terms of laryngeal size or overall vocal tract length.19 Boy and girl voices are split into these two distinctions through enculturation. And
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work, crystalizing how most people think about sound—they reduce it through naming—has been transformative. This insight has given me the critical tools
This is part of what hungry listening does
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Voice’s source is not the singer; it is the listener.
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in problems in regard to cross-fertilization. Within these two camps—the measurable and the symbolic—the voice has been formulated as two entirely different objects, and because of this there have been no grounds, reason, or
reminds me of model rocket people and model airplane people during the invention of glide recovery
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but this more "scientific" version of the process is just as fraught!
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whoa.
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examine further and discuss
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Race exists vocally for most people because they approach voice through the paradigm of the figure of sound, wherein voice can be named and the naming ritual is limited to the names into which a given responder to the acousmatic question is enculturated.
unpack and examine
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cal tessitura. By considering Scott in relation to comparable black male singers, I show that his vocal range was also occupied by many of his peers whose voices were not read in the same gender-ambiguous ways. I posit that the gender am-
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