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Caroline Bithell, A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), ISBN: 978-0-19-935455-9 (pb).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2016

CAITLIN MARSHALL
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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 13 , Issue 1: Voice , March 2016 , pp. 190 - 197
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9 A single exception is Bithell's very brief and problematic reference to Roland Barthes' essay, ‘The Grain of the Voice’. See Barthes, Image, Music, Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977). Bithell draws on Barthes to counter Western assertions that Other voices sound ‘bad’ or ‘unmusical’. What sounds ‘Other’ to Western ears, Bithell claims, are voices that sound out the bodies of marginalized subjects from the Global South: these voices reveal bodies that have ‘lived and suffered and come to know both pain and ecstasy’ (46). The notion that Other voices are inherently more embodied and connected to nature, while Western voices are unmarked and disciplined, reproduces the ideology of romantic racialism, and uses Barthes to recapitulate a readerly conception of essentialized Other voices and bodies. This is regrettable.

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