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Nina Eidsheim, Conference Chair
Katherine Meizel, Conference Co-Chair
Barbara van Nostrand, Conference Chief Coordinator
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WELCOME TO THE VOICE STUDIES NOW CONFERENCE!
This meeting brings together authors featured in the forthcoming Oxford
Handbook of Voice Studies (Nina Eidsheim and Katherine Meizel, editors)
and provides a chance for all to learn from each other and engage with
the larger voice studies community. Contracted with Oxford University
Press, the project presents diverse approaches in order to: 1) address the
question ‘what is voice?’; 2) affirm the development of voice studies as
a transdisciplinary field of inquiry; and 3) establish a dialogue to foster a
more complete understanding of voice and its meanings. The presenters
represent multiple fields of study, including musicology, ethnomusicology,
performance, medicine, speech science, linguistics, comparative literature,
psychology, broadcasting, gender and Queer studies, disability studies,
and media studies. It is our hope that the conference will help us begin to
identify the many points of intersection in these disparate approaches to
voice, and to facilitate interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
-Nina Eidsheim and Katherine Meizel
THE VOICE CHALLENGE
In the weeks leading up to the Voice Studies Now symposium, we initiated
a virtual discussion on the nature of voice. Each week we presented a
challenge question, asking participants to engage the issues through vocal
exploration. We nominated friends, family, colleagues and others interested
in voice to join the conversation by posting a short video. The challenges
issued were: “This is what my voice sounds like when I/in a
;“ “I use
my voice to
;” “What is voice?”; “What are the limits of voice?”
Additionally, with the help of Jessica Schwartz (Assistant Professor, UCLA
Musicology), the challenge also served to promote awareness of the
Marshallese Educational Initiative, supporting a community that suffers a
range of vocal limitations and damages due to US nuclear testing. More
information can be found at http://www.meius.org/. In lieu of concert
tickets or conference registration fee, please consider donating to this
important organization.
Thursday, January 29, Schoenberg Hall 1100
7:30 p.m.
UCLA Sings! A Concert
Followed by reception
Friday, January 30, Royce Hall 314
8:00-8:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
8:45-10:30 a.m.
10:30-10:45 a.m.
10:45-12:30 p.m.
Breakfast & Registration
Welcome, David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities
Panel 1: Producing Voice: Voice as Medium
Hyun Kyong Chang
Voicing Trans-Pacific Modernity: Mission-Led Confessions in
Early Twentieth Century Korea
Nandhu Radhakrishnan
Laryngeal Dynamics of Taan Gestures in Hindustani Classical
Singing
Shane Butler
What Was the Voice?
Break
Panel 2: Sensing Voice: Voice as (Multi) Sensory Phenomenon
Cornelia Fales
Voiceness’ in Instrumental Musical Sound
Greg Bryant & Kasia Pisanski
The Evolution of Voice Perception
Nina Eidsheim
Voice as a Lens to Knowledge
12:30-1:30 p.m.
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Lunch
3:15-4:00 p.m.
Break
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Keynote Artist Address, Diamanda Galás
In the Mouth of the Crocodile
Schoenberg Hall 1100
Keynote Reception
5:00-5:30 p.m.
Panel 3: Changing Voice: Voice as Barometer
Rupal Patel
Vocal Identity: A Crowdsourced Definition
Chloe Veltman
The Evolution of Singing Culture in the United States
Ronald Scherer & Katherine Meizel
Fluid Voices: Practices and Processes of Singing
Impersonation
Saturday, January 31, Perloff Hall 1302
8:00-8:45 a.m.
8:45-10:30 a.m.
Breakfast, Registration & Welcome
Panel 4: Framing Voice: Voice as Carrier of Meaning
Mara Mills
Talking Books and Aural Reading
Alisha Jones
Singing High: Black Countertenors and Treble Timbres of
Transcendence
Tom McEnaney
This American Voice: The Odd Timbre of a New Standard in
Public Radio
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45-12:30 p.m. Panel 5: Active Voice: Voice as Politics
Elias Krell
Trans/forming White Noise: Gender, Race and Dis/Ability in
the Music of Joe Stevens
Rosario Signorello
Voice in Charismatic Leadership
Jessica Schwartz
Exposed Populations: Nuclear Power and Vocal Productions
12:30-1:30 p.m.
1:30-2:34 p.m.
Lunch
2:45-3:15 p.m.
3:15-4:15 p.m.
Break
4:15pm-5:15 p.m.
Panel 6: Negotiating Voice: Voice as Transaction
Eve McPherson
Robot Imams! Standardizing, Centralizing and Debating the
Public Voice of Islam in Millennial Turkey
Jason Stanyek
Phonological Pop
Jody Kreiman
The Interdisciplinary Study of Voice
Schoenberg Hall 1100
Closing Reception with Karaoke
BIOGRAPHIES
DAPHNE A. BROOKS is the author of two books: Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular
Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Durham, NC: Duke UP), winner of The Errol
Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR and
Jeff Buckley’s Grace (New York: Continuum, 2005). Brooks is currently working on a new
book titled Subterranean Blues: Black Women Sound Modernity (Harvard University Press).
Brooks is also the author of the liner notes for The Complete Tammi Terrell (Universal A&R,
2010) and Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia (Sony, 2011), each of which has
won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for outstanding music writing. She is the editor of The
Great Escapes: The Narratives of William Wells Brown, Henry Box Brown, and William Craft
(New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007) and The Performing Arts volume of The Black
Experience in the Western Hemisphere Series, eds. Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer (New
York: Pro-Quest Information & Learning, 2006).
GREG BRYANT is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at UCLA. He is
interested broadly in the evolution of communication and cognition. His research interests
include cross-cultural voice perception, music cognition, affective prosody, and pragmatics.
SHANE BUTLER is Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol (UK). His research interests
include the history and theory of media, sensation, and cognition. HIs recent books include
The Matter of the Page (Wisconsin, 2011), The Ancient Phonograph (Zone, forthcoming 2015),
and a co-edited volume, Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (Acumen-Routledge, 2013). He
currently is co-editing Sound and the Ancient Senses (Routledge) and editing A Deep Classics
Reader (I. B. Tauris). Later in 2015 he will take up a new position as Professor of Classics at
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
HYUN KYONG CHANG (Ph.D., UCLA) explored Euro-American religious choral music in
twentieth-century Korea in her dissertation, which she completed in 2014 with the support
of an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship. She is currently a lecturer in musicology at UCLA.
Her research projects investigate the influence of U.S.’s transnational religious, military, and
political engagements on the perception and experience of vocal modernity in U.S.-allied
Pacific Rim, particularly Korea and Japan. Her writing has appeared in Music & Politics and
Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research.
NINA SUN EIDSHEIM is on the faculty of the UCLA Department of Musicology. As a scholar
and singer, she investigates the multi-sensory and performative aspects of the production,
perception and reception of vocal timbre of twentieth- and twenty-first century music. She
is currently working on these ideas and repertoires in two monograph projects titled Sensing
Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (forthcoming, Duke University Press)
and Measuring Race: Listening to Vocal Timbre and Vocality in African-American Popular
Music. She is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies and a special issue on
voice and materiality for the journal, Postmodern Culture. In addition, she is the principal
investigator for the UC-wide, transdisciplinary research project entitled Keys to Voice Studies:
Terminology, Methodology, and Questions Across Disciplines.
CORNELIA FALES is Research Associate at Indiana University. She is an ethnomusicologist
who specializes in vocal and instrumental timbre, both acoustic and synthetic, in traditional
and popular music. Her work has been published in most of the major ethnomusicology
journals and she has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Indiana
University. In addition to ongoing research on the traditional music of Rwanda and Burundi,
she is working on a book comparing concepts of timbre as they developed in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries with notions of “sound color” as used in twentieth-century
electronic dance music.
ALISHA LOLA JONES (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Department of Folklore
and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University). Projects include We Are A Peculiar People:
Meaning, Masculinity, and Competence in Gendered Gospel Performance. She has received
a number of awards, the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship; the Joint Residential
Fellowship from the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; the Martin Marty Junior Fellowship;
the Franke Institute for the Humanities Affiliated Fellowship; and a Stuart Tave Teaching
Fellowship. Jones is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory (Bachelor of Music) and Yale Divinity
School (Master of Divinity) and Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM).
JODY KREIMAN is Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California,
Los Angeles, School of Medicine. She is interested in all aspects of voice production,
acoustics, and especially perception, and is co-author with Diana Sidtis of Foundations of
Voice Studies.
ELIAS KRELL is a musician, performer, and a scholar whose current book project
centers on the singing voice as a sonic lens for the lives and performance practices of
contemporary transgender-identified musicians in North America. Krell received a Ph.D.
in Performance Studies and Graduate Certificate in Gender & Sexuality Studies from
Northwestern University, and currently teaches in the Feminist & Queer Studies Program
at Vassar College on a two-year postdoctoral fellowship through the Consortium for
Faculty Diversity. In 2014, Krell was named Emerging Diversity Scholar by the National
Center for Institutional Diversity at University of Michigan. Krell is currently conducting
ethnographic research in South America on themes of coloniality and indigeneity
amongst punk musicians who identify as travesti or trans.
TOM MCENANEY is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.
He has written for Cultural Critique, La Habana Elegante, and Variaciones Borges, as well
as the sound studies blog Sounding Out! His book project, Acoustic Properties: Radio,
Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas, investigates the co-evolution of
radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States, charting how authors in
these countries began to re-conceive novel writing as an act of listening.
EVE MCPHERSON is Assistant Professor of Music at Kent State University, Trumbull.
Her research concerns vocal timbre, Islamic recitation practices, and Turkish art music
genres and has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship, the Institute of
Turkish Studies, the American Research Institute in Turkey, FLAS, Case Western Reserve
University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, she performs
frequently as a soprano soloist in the Cleveland area with the Northeastern Ohio Vocal
Ensemble (NEOVocE). As a singer she has a particular interest in performing and
promoting contemporary Turkish art song.
KATHERINE MEIZEL earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, and also holds D.M.A., M.M., and bachelor’s degrees in vocal
performance. Her research has focused on voices and vocalities, and topics including
popular music and media, religion, American identities, and disability studies. Her book
Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol was published by Indiana University
Press in early 2011; she also wrote about Idol for the magazine Slate from 2007 to 2011.
Other publications have appeared in Popular Music and Society, The Grove Dictionary
of American Music, MUSICultures, The Voice and Speech Review, the Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, eHumanista, and several edited collections. She is currently
co-editor of the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies.
MARA MILLS is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New
York University, working at the intersection of disability studies and media studies. She
is currently completing a book titled On the Phone: Deafness and Communication
Engineering. Articles from this project can be found in Social Text, Differences, the IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies, and The
Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies. Her second book project, Print Disability
and New Reading Formats, examines the reformatting of print over the course of the
past century by blind and other print disabled readers, with a focus on Talking Books and
electronic reading machines. This new research is supported by the National Science
Foundation.
RUPAL PATEL has joint appointments in the Department of Speech Language
Pathology and Audiology in Bouve College and the College of Computer and Information
Science at Northeastern University. She directs the Communication Analysis and
Design Laboratory, an interdisciplinary group that conducts research along two broad
themes: 1) the acquisition and impairment of speech prosody (the melody of speech)
in healthy speakers and those with neuromotor disorders, and 2) the design of speech
enhancement and learning technologies that leverage the residual and/or developing
capabilities of users.
KATARZYNA PISANSKI is postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Psychology at
the University of Wrocław, Poland. She received her Ph.D. in 2014 from McMaster University,
Canada. Her research interests include vocal communication in humans and other animals
from an evolutionary perspective. Currently, she is investigating how hormones affect the
voice, and how voice production and perception vary across human cultures.
NANDHU RADHAKRISHNAN received his PhD in communication disorders from
Bowling Green State University. He underwent fellowship training at University of Pittsburgh
Voice Center, Pennsylvania. He is currently an assistant professor at the department of
Speech and Hearing, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. He teaches courses related
speech and voice science. His research interests include human voice production, Western
and Indian classical vocal music, clinical and performance voice, and vocal enhancement,
in general. He also directs the Voice Lab and Vocology Clinic and conducts a program on
vocal arts and science that is certified by Lamar University.
RON SCHERER is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Communication
Sciences and Disorders, Bowling Green State University. He teaches voice disorders
and voice and speech science courses. His research interests include the physiology,
mechanics and acoustics of basic, abnormal and performance sound production, and the
methodologies involved in such research. He was Senior Scientist at the Denver Center for
the Performing Arts voice laboratories, and taught in the DCPA’s theatre voice and speech
trainers program. In 2005 he was a research professor in the Department of Otolaryngology
– Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of Iowa, a master’s degree from Indiana University in speech-language
pathology, a B.S. degree in mathematics, and also spent two years as a music major at
Indiana University.
JESSICA A. SCHWARTZ is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at UCLA. Projects
in progress include: Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences and
Repertoires of Survival: Civil Defense, Popular Music, and the Business of Atomic Aurality in
Postwar America. In 2013, Schwartz co-founded and continues to serve as Cultural Programs
Advisor to the Marshallese Educational Initiative, Inc., a not-for-profit organization based
in Arkansas that raises cultural awareness of and promotes educational opportunities for
the Marshallese population. An active guitarist, she composes and performs experimental
noise-based and punk music.
ROSARIO SIGNORELLO holds an international double doctorate in Phonetic Science
(University of Grenoble, France) and in Social Psychology (University of Roma Tre, Italy).
He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at
the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. He conducts
research in voice quality, laryngeal biomechanics, and human charismatic voice. He is also
interested in topics about voice behavior in non-human primate leadership, multimodal
communication, social informatics, and affective computing.
JASON STANYEK teaches at the University of Oxford where he is Associate Professor
of Ethnomusicology and Tutorial Fellow at St. John’s College. His research on Brazilian
music and dance has appeared in a range of academic journals and edited volumes. He also
frequently writes on music technology. The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music
Studies (co-edited with Sumanth Gopinath) was published in early 2014 and “Deadness:
Technologies of the Intermundane”—co-written with Benjamin Piekut and published in
TDR—was given the Association of Theater in Higher Education’s Outstanding Article
Award in 2011 and was also named by MIT Press as one of the 50 most influential articles
published across all of its journals over the past 50 years. He currently serves as Reviews
Editor of the journal Twentieth-Century Music and as general editor for Bloomsbury’s new
series 33 1/3 Brazil, an offshoot of their long-running 33 1/3 series.
CHLOE VELTMAN is a Denver-based journalist and broadcaster. She currently serves as
arts editor at Colorado Public Radio.
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Conference Staff
Barbara van Nostrand, Conference Chief Coordinator
Jessica Gonzalez, Conference Administrator
Anahit Manoukian, Conference Administrator
Jillian Rogers, Conference, Concert, and Voice Challenge Coordinator
Mike D’Errico, Technology and Voice Challenge Coordinator, Website Design
Tiffany Naiman, Publicity
Kristina Hordzwick, Graphic Design
Jillian Fontaine, Associate Director of Development
Luis Henao, Technology Consultant
ADDITIONAL THANKS TO
David Schaberg, Dean of UCLA Humanities
Raymond Knapp, Chair of UCLA Department of Musicology
Neal Stulberg, Chair of UCLA Department of Music
Jessica Schwartz, Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Musicology;
Cultural Programs Advisor to the Marshallese Educational Initiative, Inc.
Norm Hirschy, Editor, Oxford University Press
Olivia Diaz, Chief Administrative Officer, UCLA Humanities
Joy Doan, UCLA Music Inquiry & Research Librarian
THE VOICE STUDIES NOW CONCERT AND SYMPOSIUM
ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF
The Herb Alpert School of Music Nelson Fund
The Herb Alpert School of Music, Departments of
Ethnomusicology, Music, and Musicology
The UCLA Dean of Humanities
UCLA Arts Initiative Award
UCLA Interdisciplinary Workshop,
Planning Meetings, and Symposium Fund
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Department of World Arts
and Cultures/Dance Program
UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture
UCLA Department of Communication Studies
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Department of Linguistics