The voice lessons
Jenssen, R. (2022). The voice lessons. Scriptum : Creative Writing Research Journal.9(2). DOI: 10.17011/scriptum/2022/2/3
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In this text I invite you to join me in a series of voice lessons,
where I shares stories from my embodied experiences as a
soprano, teacher, and researcher in the Western sociocultural
context of singing. If you are expecting a traditional voice
lesson, of ‘How to sing, 1, 2, 3’ you might be disappointed.
But, if you are interested in how voicing (auto)ethnographies
might be one way of producing, analyzing, and representing
voice, I will happily dive into the voice lessons with you. For
me, writing stories has become a way of knowing as a researcher, as through my writing I was able to discover new
perspectives of voice – ultimately allowing me space to rethink notions of voice. Through the voice lessons I show how
I zigzag through the worlds of the material voice and theoretical-philosophical-‘academic’ voice, guided by new materialism and performative autoethnography. My voice lessons
can be seen as a performative utterance, which rests on the
belief in the embodiment and the materiality of the writing
body, an open-ended way of (re)thinking voice. Voice lessons
for singing voices and academic voices.
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