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Publication Date: 2024
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How to Teach a Puppet to Sing: Exploring Posthuman Perspectives on the 'Natural' Voice Alongside "The Walk" (2021)
Florence Brady
Music Education Research, v26 n3 p240-250 2024
In this article I explore the construct of the 'natural' voice within the context of the natural voice movement, before invoking perspectives on voice from the posthumanities and D/deaf studies in discussion of "The Walk," a performance between a puppet, a natural voice choir, a refugee choir and a large audience that occurred in London in October 2021. Methodologically, this paper is an attempt at 'thinking with theory' (Jackson, Alecia Youngblood, and Lisa A. Mazzei. 2017. "Thinking with Theory: A New Analytic for Qualitative Inquiry." In The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by N. K. Denzin, and Y. Lincoln, 717-737. Sage) -- specifically thinking voice alongside theoretical stimuli from the posthumanities through the doing of ethnography -- in the hope of provoking useful flights of thought in relation to the practice and study of music education and community music. I conclude by considering my personal rationale for engaging with the posthumanities as a means of researching community singing within the natural voice movement. A protean version of this article was presented as a paper-presentation at the Grieg Research School in Bergen, Norway in 2022.
Descriptors: Music Education, Humanism, Singing, Group Activities, Music Activities, Deafness, Ethnography, Community Programs
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