Electrified Voices

Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer. Edited by Dmitri Zakharine and Nils Meise. 24 contributions (one of them in German), structured by four thematic fields: 1. E-Voices: From Soundscape to Sound-Design; 2. Gendered E-Voices and Listening Community; 3. E-Voice Synthesis and E-Voice Montage. Techniques and Social Meaning; 4. Human Voice Cultures, which Resisted Electrification. - The aim of this book is to explore the phenomenon of the electrified voice through interdisciplinary approaches such as media and technology studies, social history, and comparative cultural studies. The book focuses on three problem clusters: reflections on the societal level about the task of electronic voice transmission; the mediation of gender- and occupation-specific vocal stereotypes in audio and audio-visual formats; and the genesis of such vocal stereotypes in national radio and film cultures. Such a historicizing approach to societal experience in the field of voice mediation, including the use and interpretation of voice media, is today of great relevance in light of the collective learning processes currently triggered by rapid advances in technology. 416 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abb., gebunden (V&R unipress 2013) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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