Topics in Music Criticism

Harvard FAS

Voices & Books: Toward New Histories of Voice and Reading. This course is designed to stage next-generation research on the histories of voice and reading. Working outward from critical approaches developed by Roger Chartier, D. F. McKenzie, Jack Goody, Bruce Smith, Amanda Weidman, and Michel de Certeau and grounded in close study of the material forms in which voices are recorded, distorted, silenced, and conveyed. The seminar’s interpretive toolkit will also draw theories from…