Holly Patch hält in Frankreich einen Vortrag zu trans* Vokalität

"Sounding Trans* and Claiming Voice" - Holly Patch

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.

Diskutant: Aron Arnold, PhD

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des Seminars "Pensée straight, (im)pensée queer?" [Straight mind, queer (un)thought] der Forschungsgruppe Musi-queer statt.

Datum: 10.06.25
Zeit: 14-16 Uhr
Veranstaltungsort:  Université de Lorraine, Metz, Campus du Saulcy, Espace Rabelais
(Gebäude SHS), Raum Thélème
 

Der Vortrag  wird auch online übertragen. Anmeldung per Email an Catherine Deutsch.