Zakryte, nieobecne, niejednoznaczne: uwagi na temat cielesności śpiewu i instrumentalnego rozumienia ciała w tradycjach wokalnych
Covered, absent, ambiguous: remarks on the corporeality of singing and instrumental treatment of the body in vocal traditions

Author(s): Małgorzata A. Szyszkowska
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Author begins by asserting that there a dynamic and difficult to outline relation between the vocalist and his body. She suggests that the differences between treating (naming, describing and showing) the role of the body came from cultural habit but also the very conceptual grasping of the body. Referring to three different vocal traditions (operatic singing, vocal games and improvisation), author points towards difficult or easy way of showing the significant bodily aspect of expression, production and grounding of vocal artistic experience. From treating body as an instrument, bodily grounding of the emission of sound in body posture, to hand gestures and more in operatic singing it is clear that body is the nexus of the vocal experience. What makes the difference is the visibility imparted to the body.

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