I leave voice messages and I exult in staring at my phone as it tells me that my interlocutor is ‘recording’. Vocal prejudiceSuch romanticisation, however, runs the risk of animating faith in some fundamental link between voice and identity. Is it a surprise, then, that we set so much store by the imagined links between voice and identity? Expand on this to consider the general category of voice artists, where the voice is literally what stands between nature and culture. As Dolar argues, the voice is indeed an uncanny subject, something we have heard before and will again, and something that reveals things we know but prefer not to acknowledge.

Source: The Hindu June 05, 2021 10:45 UTC