The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2016

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
216 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780823270019
Related ISBNs:
9780823270002, 9780823269990
Publisher:
Fordham University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Fordham University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts, Music, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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