[AMS-announce] CONF: Vocality Symposium, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Apr 6-7 2007

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Vocality Symposium
University of Virginia
April 6-7, 2007

While singing is ubiquitous in most music worldwide, neither music 
scholarship nor vocal pedagogy offers a standard way to analyze vocal 
sounds and thus the terminology scholars use remains inconsistent and 
poorly defined. This workshop will bring together scholars of vocal 
music to analyze sounds and production values and agree on terminology. 
We will be joined by scholars Heather Hadlock, Gabriel Solis, and Lara 
Pelligrinelli, as well as an experienced popular music singer and studio 
technicians of several genres of vocal music to lead discussion on the 
singing styles they know best, as well as address analytical approaches 
offered in central, difficult texts, such as Roland Barthes? ?The Grain 
of the Voice? and Theodore Adorno?s ?The Curves of the Needle.?

To receive materials and the schedule, please contact: Shana 
Goldin-Perschbacher, smgoldin at virginia.edu