Covering Trans Media

Jennex, Craig; Murphy, Maria

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“…More recently, initial studies of transgender singers in popular music (cf. Goldin-Perschbacher 2007, 2015; Maurey 2009; Krell 2013, 2019; Jennex and Murphy 2017; Leibetseder 2017; Välimäki 2017; Pennington 2018; Baitz 2019; Geffen 2020) have begun to draw a complex map of transvocality (Constansis 2008), describing the ways in which trans voices may variously configure the relationships between voices, bodies, and subjects.…”

Section: Trans Voices In Popular Music and Emergent Discursive Format...mentioning

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Listening to Anohni's variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations

Muchitsch

2023

Pop. Mus.

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This article examines the work and reception of singer-songwriter Anohni to investigate sonic and discursive negotiations of transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture. Developing Haraway's concept of feminist figurations, it introduces the concept of vocal figurations, which articulates a performative, relational and multiply mediated understanding of voice, wherein gendered voice takes shape through processes of voicing and listening. I initially examine Anohni's reception to analyse how biologist, trans-exclusionary and othering discourses surrounding voice and gender inform emergent discourses of transfeminine voices in the first decades of the 21st century. Subsequently, I build on trans and queer theorisations of voice and listening to engage Anohni's variably vibrating voice as a vocal figuration that may challenge biologist and marginalising constructions of transfeminine vocality. I suggest that it may attune us to recognise all gendered voices as thoroughly situated yet changeable configurations of sounding voices, bodies, and subjects.

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Section: Trans Voices In Popular Music and Emergent Discursive Format...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening to Anohni's variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations

Muchitsch

2023

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Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out

Cayari

2022

Music Education Research

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Covering Trans Media

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Listening to Anohni's variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations

Listening to Anohni's variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations

Becoming a ‘Trans Synth Queen’: YouTube, electronic music composition, and coming out

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