Rhetoric Society Quarterly Aug 2023

What Wizardry is this?: Somatic Listening and Verbal Metaphor in an Undergraduate Voice Studio

Maria Kingsbury Drury University

Abstract

Through the description of activity in an undergraduate voice studio, this essay posits the concept of somatic listening, an active and embodied engagement with verbal metaphor. Somatic listening, which includes aspects of multimodal and relational interlistening, opens singers’ mechanism to being moved by verbal metaphors suggested by their instructor or the text of their score. These movements are traceable through changes in a singer’s voice and in their embodied sensations.

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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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2023-08-08
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10.1080/02773945.2023.2175023
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