List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples (Print) List of Website Examples (Audiovisual) Preface Introduction: The Clamor of Voices Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin Part I: Sound-Producing Voice 1 Speech and/in Song Steven Rings 2 From the Natural to the Instrumental: Chinese Theories of the Sounding Voice before the Modern Era Judith T. Zeitlin Part II: Limit Cases 3 Voice, Music, Modernism: The Case of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen Marcelle Pierson 4 Screamlines: On the Anatomy and Geology of Radio Neil Verma Part III: Vocal Owners and Borrowed Voices 5 It's All by Someone Else Robert Polito 6 The Artist's Impression: Ethel Waters as Mimic Laurie Stras 7 "I Am an Essentialist": Against the Voice Itself James Q. Davies Part IV: Myth, Wound, and Gap 8 Is the Voice a Myth? A Rereading of Ovid Shane Butler 9 Voice Gap Crack Break Martha Feldman 10 The Gesamtkunstwerk and Its Discontents: The Wounded Voice in (and around) Alexander von Zemlinsky's The Dwarf David J. Levin 11 There Is No Such Thing as the Composer's Voice Seth Brodsky Part V: Interlude: The Gendered Voice 12 Vowels/Consonants: The Legend of a "Gendered" (Sexual) Difference Told by Cinema Michel Chion, translated by Zakir Paul Part VI: Technology, Difference, and the Uncanny 13 The Prosthetic Voice in Ancient Greece Sarah Nooter 14 The Duppy in the Machine: Voice and Technology in Jamaican Popular Music Andrew F. Jones 15 The Actor's Absent Voice: Silent Cinema and the Archives of Kabuki in Prewar Japan Jonathan Zwicker 16 A Voice That Is Not Mine: Terror and the Mythology of the Technological Voice Tom Gunning Afterword Voices That Matter Mladen Dolar Notes List of Contributors Index.