La dernière séance du séminaire Musi·queer "Pensée straight, (im)pensée queer?" se tiendra à l'Université de Lorraine, Metz, le 10 juin prochain à 14h (île du Saulcy, bâtiment SHS, Espace Rabelais, salle Thélème). Nous accueillerons Holly Patch, pour une communication en anglais intitulée "Sounding Trans* and claiming voice". Le répondant sera Aron Arnold.
Résumé:
In this talk, I present an ethnographic case study of trans* vocality with the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles (TCLA). I begin by reflecting on my use of interpretative phenomenological analysis as a depathologizing interview method, outlining how I reconstructed singers’ lived epistemologies of (gendered) voice by tracing the mutually constitutive material and symbolic dimensions of their vocal experiences. I then share empirical findings that illustrate how TCLA singers re-encounter their vocal bodies and re-empower their voices through their active, aesthetic, and multisensory engagement of singing together. In particular, I examine how these practices transform how they sense and understand voice and gender. I argue that claiming voice is an intricate process of embodying and incorporating vocal experience into a lived sense of self. This study reveals the individual and collective political, sonic, and embodied claiming of voice by trans* singers.
Le séminaire sera suivi d'un moment de convivialité.
Pour suivre le séminaire en ligne, écrire à catherine.deutsch@univ-lorraine.fr