Review: The Voice as Something More: Essays Toward Materiality, edited by Martha Feldman & Judith T. Zeitlin

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Book Review| July 27 2020 Review: The Voice as Something More: Essays Toward Materiality, edited by Martha Feldman & Judith T. Zeitlin The Voice as Something More: Essays Toward Materiality Edited by Martha Feldman & Judith T. Zeitlin University of Chicago Press, 2019, 375 pp. Namrata Rele Sathe Namrata Rele Sathe Namrata Rele Sathe (“Review, The Voice as Something More”) holds a PhD in media studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her dissertation, “You Only Live Once: Bollywood, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and the Hindutva State,” focuses on the politics of gender, sexuality, and caste in neoliberal right-wing India read through the lens of popular Hindi cinema. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Studies in South Asian Film and Media and the New Review of Film and Television Studies. She is the assistant editor of Studies in South Asian Film and Media. Her research interests include feminist media studies, literary studies, gender and sexuality studies, and popular culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Resonance (2020) 1 (2): 211–214. https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2020.1.2.211 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Namrata Rele Sathe; Review: The Voice as Something More: Essays Toward Materiality, edited by Martha Feldman & Judith T. Zeitlin. Resonance 27 July 2020; 1 (2): 211–214. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2020.1.2.211 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentResonance Search Keywords: The Voice as Something More, sound studies, voice In The Voice as Something More, editors Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin have put together a collection of essays that cover an expanse of theoretical and textual issues related to the “voice” in sound studies. The volume is a useful primer for scholars looking for an introduction to voice as a conceptual aspect of sound; however, the essays are also a thorough inquiry into the physiological, psychological, and sociopolitical contexts of voice. In the introduction, “The Clamor of Voices,” Feldman and Zeitlin define their book as an inquiry into the materiality of voice. This rationale, the editors explain, enables a critical–cultural approach to voice within constructs such as “self and other, language, ‘grain,’ technology, music and race” (p. 4). The collection is a response to an earlier book by Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More, a highly influential intervention in the field of sound studies. In... You do not currently have access to this content.