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SUMMARY:Colonising the Ear: Experimental Phonetics and the Taming of the 
 Tongue
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 AND SIDE\n\nBetween the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, 
 a range of technologies and institutional systems emerged with the aim o
 f representing and regulating the sonic dimensions of language and voice
 . Devices such as the phonograph promoted new modes of listening\, while
  the proliferation of pedagogical linguistic and vocal recordings foster
 ed the idea that the tongue and ear themselves could be trained towards 
 a more “correct” use of language. These new regimes of inscription and r
 eproduction did not simply translate pre- existing sonic imaginaries int
 o new formats\, but rather created new scientific discourses embedded in
  broader political projects related to imperialism\, internal colonisati
 on\, and the configuration of mass culture. Whether linked to national c
 onsolidation\, colonial impulses or social regulation\, the disciplining
  of speech became central to the prestige and scientific configuration o
 f “experimental phonetics” — as famously dramatized in works such as Pyg
 malion (Bernard Shaw).\n\nThis seminar explores the transformations and 
 continuities of these early sound cultures\, focusing on how they produc
 ed specific regimes of audibility and vocal practice across national and
  transnational contexts. Bringing together perspectives on experimental 
 phonetics\, musicology and the literary voice\, it examines how phonetic
  laboratories and discourses developed techniques for training\, taming 
 and mediating vocal expression\, and how these intersected with broader 
 aesthetic\, political\, and cultural concerns in given national and impe
 rial contexts.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A104\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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