Mattering Voices

Studying Voice through New Materialisms

Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Anne Tarvainen, Milla Tiainen (University of Turku, Finland)

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Routledge
22 October 2025

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Music: styles & genres; Religion: general; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Routledge Voice Studies

Mattering Voices advances mutually enriching relationships in-between the transdisciplinary fields of voice studies and new materialisms.

This is the first edited volume to explore how the theoretical, methodological, and analytical possibilities of both voice scholarship and new materialisms gain further depth and directions through their co-constitutive—intra-active—relationality. In this book, voice researchers from performance studies and philosophy, artistic research, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, feminist and gender research, and educational studies develop new materialisms-influenced approaches to voice and voice studies-inspired adaptations of new materialisms in the empirical study of various kinds of voicing. The topics covered range from voice in artistic practices and contemporary academia to new notions of musicality and vocal atmospheres, as well as the significance of singing in gendered senses of self and interspecies relations. By experimenting with intra-actions of voice studies and new materialisms, the book proposes fresh ways of researching and grasping how voices matter: how they materialize as events and practices and acquire meanings.

As a polyphony of voices, this volume invites readers into entangled conversations about how voice emerges— creating modes of being, knowing, and co-existing—and what it might still become.

Edited by: Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Anne Tarvainen, Milla Tiainen (University of Turku, Finland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9781032480022
ISBN 10: 1032480025
Series: Routledge Voice Studies
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 22 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano is a Voice Artist, Performance Philosopher, Researcher (PhD) at the Academy of Art and Design University of Gothenburg, Existential Counselor, and Priest in the Church of Sweden. Anne Tarvainen is an ethnomusicologist (PhD) specializing in the embodied, experiential, and cultural meanings of voice. She is currently a senior research fellow at the University of Eastern Finland. Milla Tiainen is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku and Associate Professor of Musicology (Title of Docent) at the University of Helsinki.