Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Karantonis, Pamela
• Verstraete, Pieter
• Placanica, Francesca
• Brünott, Carla
• Sivuoja-Kauppala, Anne

Titel

Introduction/Overture

Ist Teil von

• Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality, 2014, p.3-18

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores Cathy Berberian's radical articulations with the need to revise vocal performance history in terms of the concept of vocal writing-a mode of production often obscured by a male-dominated and logocentric way of understanding the musical and performance score. It investigates the gendered nature of the listening experience with Hannah Bosma's suggestion that vocality is a project at the behest of patriarchal cultural myths regarding a human subjectivity constructed through aurality. The book presents some of the more playful projects within Cathy Berberian's career that reveal the polyvalent nature of the voice-as creative instrument in art music, but one that intervened in modes of cultural reception. It showcases the most recent discourse used by artists to reflect upon their own vocality in response to the example set by Cathy Berberian.