JANUARY 30-31, 2015 AT UCLA

College

Musicology

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Nina Eidsheim, Conference ChairKatherine Meizel, Conference Co-ChairBarbara van Nostrand, Conference Chief Coordinator

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

WELCOME TO THE VOICE STUDIES NOW CONFERENCE!

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.

THE VOICE CHALLENGE

Thursday, January 29, Schoenberg Hall 1100 UCLA Sings! A Concert7:30 p.m. Followed by reception

Friday, January 30, Royce Hall 314Breakfast & Registration 8:00-8:30 a.m. Welcome, David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities8:30 a.m.

8:45-10:30 a.m.

Break10:30-10:45 a.m.10:45-12:30 p.m.

Lunch 12:30-1:30 p.m. 1:30-3:15 p.m.

Break3:15-4:00 p.m.

Keynote Artist Address, Diamanda GalásIn the Mouth of the Crocodile Schoenberg Hall 1100

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Keynote Reception5:00-5:30 p.m.

Panel 2: Sensing Voice: Voice as (Multi) Sensory Phenomenon

Cornelia Fales Voiceness’ in Instrumental Musical SoundGreg Bryant & Kasia PisanskiThe Evolution of Voice PerceptionNina EidsheimVoice as a Lens to Knowledge

Panel 1: Producing Voice: Voice as MediumHyun Kyong Chang Voicing Trans-Pacific Modernity: Mission-Led Confessions in Early Twentieth Century KoreaNandhu Radhakrishnan Laryngeal Dynamics of Taan Gestures in Hindustani Classical SingingShane Butler What Was the Voice?

Panel 3: Changing Voice: Voice as Barometer

Rupal Patel Vocal Identity: A Crowdsourced DefinitionChloe Veltman The Evolution of Singing Culture in the United StatesRonald Scherer & Katherine MeizelFluid Voices: Practices and Processes of Singing Impersonation

Saturday, January 31, Perloff Hall 1302Breakfast, Registration & Welcome8:00-8:45 a.m.

8:45-10:30 a.m.

Break10:30-10:45 a.m. 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 StevensRosario Signorello Voice in Charismatic LeadershipJessica Schwartz Exposed Populations: Nuclear Power and Vocal Productions

Panel 4: Framing Voice: Voice as Carrier of Meaning

Mara Mills Talking Books and Aural ReadingAlisha Jones Singing High: Black Countertenors and Treble Timbres of TranscendenceTom McEnaneyThis American Voice: The Odd Timbre of a New Standard in Public Radio

Lunch 12:30-1:30 p.m.

1:30-2:34 p.m.

Break2:45-3:15 p.m. Jody KreimanThe Interdisciplinary Study of Voice Schoenberg Hall 1100

3:15-4:15 p.m.

Closing Reception with Karaoke 4:15pm-5:15 p.m.

Panel 6: Negotiating Voice: Voice as TransactionEve McPhersonRobot Imams! Standardizing, Centralizing and Debating the Public Voice of Islam in Millennial TurkeyJason StanyekPhonological Pop

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).

BIOGRAPHIES

Jody KreimanThe Interdisciplinary Study of Voice Schoenberg Hall 1100

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.

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

THE VOICE STUDIES NOW CONCERT AND SYMPOSIUM ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF

SPECIAL THANKS TOConference Staff

Barbara van Nostrand, Conference Chief CoordinatorJessica Gonzalez, Conference Administrator

Anahit Manoukian, Conference AdministratorJillian Rogers, Conference, Concert, and Voice Challenge Coordinator

Mike D’Errico, Technology and Voice Challenge Coordinator, Website DesignTiffany Naiman, Publicity

Kristina Hordzwick, Graphic DesignJillian Fontaine, Associate Director of Development

Luis Henao, Technology Consultant

ADDITIONAL THANKS TODavid Schaberg, Dean of UCLA Humanities

Raymond Knapp, Chair of UCLA Department of MusicologyNeal 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 PressOlivia Diaz, Chief Administrative Officer, UCLA Humanities

Joy Doan, UCLA Music Inquiry & Research Librarian