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E-book Culturally Speaking : The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture

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Each Friday my colleagues and I gather to discuss the week’s wins and losses. As we share ideas and experiences, we focus on the messages we are constructing and hearing. Sometimes, when topics are delicate, we are careful with phrasing and vocal tone, and when the space fills with people, we adjust our volume or move our bodies into closer proximity. The televisions in the space add voices to the mix: Tony Kornheiser, Van Jones, and Greta Van Sus-teren have all joined us occasionally from speaker and screen. Bobby McFer-rin, Eric Clapton, and 4 Non Blondes, too, are among our regular visitors via jukebox. All are voices sharing space and being heard or ignored. All are voices communicating more than their intended messages, speaking or singing as much through tone and timbre as through language. All are voices coded with unique identities, inviting listeners into relationships and sharing, through vocal sound, the intimate inner workings of bodies and their ways of being.Voices both unite listeners with speakers and highlight difference, aurally communicating shared cultural space as well as the uniqueness of individual bodies. Speech and song bring people together, organizing cultures, institu-tions, organizations, conflicts, and other relationships. The experience of hear-ing those who sound like us, Dolores Inés Casillas points out, is a powerful experience of communal comfort, particularly in settings of marginalization.1Since learning to speak and sing is based originally in listening to sur-rounding voices, vocal sound can be understood as developing from and continually constituting community.2 Yet, as important as familiar voices are to a sense of aural environmental comfort, the “manyness” of sonic commu-nication means that we are most often surrounded by a diversity of voices.3Expressions of vocalized language, emotion, and identity are continually encouraged or disciplined by those around us, and in so doing, particular sounds are integrated and recirculated or excluded altogether, forming those combinations that we find individually or culturally familiar. Eric King Watts argues that “voice announces the felt experience of one’s immediate relation to and inseparability from the world and others,” but voice can also indicate dif-ference and isolation.4 The communal nature of speaking and listening relies on the functions of the human voice to circulate culture in particular ways. As natural as this experience often feels, it takes place within the social pres-sures of oppression and privilege. In this way, culture is constantly shaped and reshaped through the invisible and often overlooked sonic channel. As such, the voice is central to cultural rhetoric.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

401.43 EDG c

Penerbit

USA : The Ohio State University Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

224 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780814214060

Klasifikasi

401.43

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Semantics

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