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Sunday, April 17 • 10:45am - 12:45pm
Voice, Age, and Gender
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Emily Baker, “Age in the Age of Autotune: The (Re)construction of Aretha Franklin”
Ian Biddle, “Voice, Listening, and the Slow History of Aging in Popular Music”
Richard Elliott, “A Blank Space Where You Write Your Name: Taylor Swift’s Early Late Voice”
Freya Jarman, “Voice, Affect, and Ideology at Christmas, or, What I Was Left Pondering When My Figgy Pudding Had Settled”
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Steve Waksman

Steve Waksman is Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. His publications include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Harvard University Press, 1999), and This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover... Read More →

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Emily Baker

Emily Baker is a second-year PhD student, working on the function, properties, and impact of the aesthetic of age in the voice in contemporary pop music. Conceiving of age in the voice as a site of resistance to normative assumptions of sex, gender and sexuality, her work is underpinned... Read More →
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Ian Biddle

Ian Biddle is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music and sound-related areas. His work ranges from the cultural history of music and masculinity, theorizing music's intervention in communities and subjectivities, sound, soundscapes and urban experience... Read More →
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Richard Elliott

Richard Elliott is Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Sussex. His current research focuses on the representations of time, age, and experience in popular music as well as the relationship between music and materiality. He is the author of the books Fado and the Place of... Read More →
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Freya Jarman

Freya Jarman is a Senior Lecturer in the music department at the University of Liverpool. She is especially interested in cultures and ideologies of the voice, and is the author of Queer Voices: Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), in which her... Read More →

Sunday April 17, 2016 10:45am - 12:45pm PDT
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