Abstract
Abstract Chapter 8 discusses the implications of voice loss. The experience of loss when a professional singing voice is disrupted is entangled not only in the expressive and embodied nature of vocality but also in neoliberalism, in which labor and its value are understood as core components of identity. In a neoliberally grounded music industry, losing a voice can feel like losing one’s value, and like a devastating loss of identity. The chapter focuses on the idea of voice loss as a personal loss of control, through trauma, disability, or illness, and examines the ways in which individual singers negotiate that loss. The author also discusses experiences of chronic illness, including her own, and other singers’ experiences of loss that have impacted their voices.
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