by Brandon LaBelle
- Author(s)
- Brandon LaBelle
- Publication, year
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
- Scope
- 221 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- Carrier
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781623561888
Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. LaBelle argues for the revolutionary promise of the laugh, the spirited mythologies of the whisper, the schizophonics of self-talk, and the primal noise of gibberish, suggesting that the significance of voicing is fundamentally bound to the exertions of the mouth. Subsequently, assumptions around voice and vocality are unsettled in favor of an epistemology of the oral, highlighting the acts of the tongue, the lips and the throat as primary mediations between interior and exterior, social structures and embodied expressions. LaBelle makes a significant contribution to currents in sound and voice studies by reminding that to hear the voice, and to consider a politics of speech, is first and foremost to assume the mouth.
- Keywords
- sound
- Location
- Cabinet 11A - 1: Geluid ; kunst
