CONGRESS CANCELED The Multivalent Voice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Speech, and Performance in Medieval France (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

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This interdisciplinary roundtable features brief presentations and discussion of contemporary approaches, frameworks, and methodologies for analyzing voice as a gendered and performed phenomenon in medieval French and Occitanian texts and songs. As medieval French texts were often voiced--that is, either read or sung aloud--voice is a central rubric for understanding the performance, reception, and interpretation of textual and musical works across varied genres. Drawing on contemporary scholarly dialogues, we investigate here strategies for uncovering the multivalent ways that such voices have been constructed, performed, and sounded, as we seek to understand their resonances both in the Middle Ages and today. This roundtable continues an ongoing series of sessions on Gender & Voice in Medieval France at Kalamazoo over the course of several years. (Rachel May Golden & Katherine Kong)

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May 7th, 3:30 PM

CONGRESS CANCELED The Multivalent Voice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Speech, and Performance in Medieval France (A Roundtable)

Schneider 1360

This interdisciplinary roundtable features brief presentations and discussion of contemporary approaches, frameworks, and methodologies for analyzing voice as a gendered and performed phenomenon in medieval French and Occitanian texts and songs. As medieval French texts were often voiced--that is, either read or sung aloud--voice is a central rubric for understanding the performance, reception, and interpretation of textual and musical works across varied genres. Drawing on contemporary scholarly dialogues, we investigate here strategies for uncovering the multivalent ways that such voices have been constructed, performed, and sounded, as we seek to understand their resonances both in the Middle Ages and today. This roundtable continues an ongoing series of sessions on Gender & Voice in Medieval France at Kalamazoo over the course of several years. (Rachel May Golden & Katherine Kong)