Title The performative power of vocality / Virginie Magnat

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 240 pages) Series Routledge voice studies Routledge voice studies series. Contents Performance, Embodiment, and Vocality -- Reclaiming Presence for the Lived Voice -- Exploring (K)new Paradigms -- Vocality as Source, Resource, and Potentiality 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Virginie Magnat is Associate Professor of Performance at the University of British Columbia, Canada Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Singing. Singing -- Psychological aspects Singing -- Social aspects Voice -- Psychological aspects Voice -- Social aspects Indians of North America -- Music -- Social aspects -- Canada Indians of North America -- Canada -- Social life and customs Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social life and customs chants. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional. Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Social life and customs Singing Singing -- Psychological aspects Voice -- Psychological aspects Voice -- Social aspects Canada Genre/Form Music Music. Musique. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019025373 ISBN 9780429340338 0429340338 9781000710366 100071036X 1000710750 9781000709971 1000709973 9781000710755

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