The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823269990)

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, essential to sense yet in excess of it. They can be neither reduced to neurology nor silenced in abstraction. They complicate the logos of the beginning and emphasize the enfleshing of all words. Through explorations of theology and philosophy, pedagogy, translation, and semiotics, all interwoven with song, The Matter of Voice works toward reintegrating our thinking about both speaking and authorial voice as fleshy combinings of meaning and music.

Author: Karmen Mackendrick
ISBN-10: 082326999X
ISBN-13: 9780823269990
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2016
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2016