The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema - Diane Hughes
Find Your Voice: Narratives of Women’s Voice Loss in American Cinema
The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema - Diane Hughes
Katherine Meizel [+]
Bowling Green State University
Katherine Meizel is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She earned her PhD in ethnomusicology at UCSB, and also holds a doctorate in vocal performance. Her research includes topics in voice and identity, popular music and media, religion, American identities, and disability studies. Her book, Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol (IU Press), was published in 2011; she also wrote about Idol for the magazine Slate from 2007 to 2011. She is currently co-editing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies, and completing a monograph for Oxford University Press titled Multivocality: An Ethnography of Singing on the Borders of Identity.
Description
This chapter explores the gendered implications of voice loss. It traces a rhetorical history of voice as agency, and of the manifestations of that equation in American cinema, where the transformation of voices—especially women’s— are clearly seen and heard.