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Ordinary Oralities : Everyday Voices in History /

Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, notable rebels, grands discours, and famous exceptional speakers and singers populate our shelves. This focus on the great and exceptional has not only led to disproportionate attention to a small subset of historical ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boer, Tessa de (Contribuidor), Hoegaerts, Josephine (Editor ), Schroeder, Janice (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Ordinary Oralities: Introduction
  • I
  • Becoming Kuniong: Vocal Encounter and Female Missionary Work in Gutian, China (1893-1895)
  • "Good evening, you hag": Verbalizing Unhappy Marriages in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
  • Sounding Sex: Erotic Oralities in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Archive
  • George Catlin's Shut Your Mouth, the Biopolitics of Voice, and the Problem of the "Stuttering Indian"
  • II
  • Reading Olaudah Aloud: Elocution, the Commodity-Form, and Transverse Culture
  • Traces of the Ordinary: The Guthrie Brothers and the Voices of Victorian "Nobodies"
  • A Shifting Swarm of Vocalities: An Assemblage Approach to PA Systems and Morning Assemblies in Finnish Primary Schools (1930s-1980s)
  • III
  • Performing Waulking Songs as an Emotional Practice in Gaelic Scotland
  • Voicing Imperial Order, Identity, and Resistance: The Singing of British Child Migrants
  • The Speechless Patient: Charcot's Diagnostic Interpretation of Vocal, Gestural, and Written Expressions in Hysterical Mutism
  • Afterword
  • Speak, Shout, Beseech
  • Making History in the Streets of the Eighteenth Century: Afterword
  • Contributors
  • Index