CfP - "Vocal Embodiment and Remediation"
Type: Call for Papers
Date: September 23, 2016
Location: Netherlands
Subject Fields: Humanities,
Literature, Music and Music History, Theatre & Performance History /
Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
In
the past decades, the encompassing interaction between literature and
media in live performance has paved the way for epistemologies centered
on vocality, performativity, and embodiment. More recently, Jelena
Novak’s notion of ‘Postopera’ (2015) raises questions about the role of
the body in contemporary technoculture and the traditions technologies
transmit and adapt: “the relationship between the body and the voice [in
their digital remediation] is the locus for a redefinition
both of opera itself and our understanding of it.” This panel will
further explore redefinitions of the voice-body interrelation as staged
in literature, music, and performances, both historical and
contemporary. As with postopera, we will follow trajectories in
musicology, gender studies, and media studies, in order to further
understand the interface between (singing) bodies and voices. In
addition to the postoperatic perspective, which returns to the body as
one of the most compelling components – even one of the main texts – of
today’s digital landscapes of voice, we will also consider how critical
observations issued from posthumanism have repeatedly questioned the
ties that bond the voice to the body.
This panel seeks to convene
media and literary critics, musicologists, and composers, as well as
other cultural theorists committed to further deconstructing voices and
their materialities of embodiment. We welcome papers examining
vocality’s technological mediation of bodies from a broad range of
critical perspectives and in different media: from voice to embodiment
studies, and from literature (both print and electronic) to (digital)
opera and performance art. As our goal is to broaden the scope and the
relevance of vocal embodiment for interdisciplinary study, we also
welcome presentations that do not directly pertain to literary texts,
but will nevertheless contribute to our understanding of these different
areas of study.
To participate in this panel, please submit your
abstract via the ACLA’s website before the deadline on Sept. 23, 2016.
If you would like to discuss your paper with us before submitting an
abstract, please feel free to contact us by email.
Contact Email: jrdaoust3@gmail.com