The Oxford handbook of voice studies /

More than two hundred years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices talking from seemingly anywhere and everywhere, including house alarm systems, cars, telephones, and digital assistants, or "smart speakers" such as Alexa and Google Home. However, vocal events still...

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Other Authors: Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- (Editor), Meizel, Katherine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:More than two hundred years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices talking from seemingly anywhere and everywhere, including house alarm systems, cars, telephones, and digital assistants, or "smart speakers" such as Alexa and Google Home. However, vocal events still have the capacity to raise age-old questions regarding the human, the animal, the machine, and the spiritual-or in nonmetaphysical terms, questions about identity and authenticity. Individuals and groups perform, refuse, and play identity through vocal acts and by listening to and for voice. In this volume, leading scholars from multiple disciplines respond to the seemingly innocuous question: What is voice?
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199338641 (ebook) :
DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199982295.001.0001