TLRH| Sonic Spaces |Gendered Soundscapes

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Mar 16, 2021 · 57m

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. Discourse around gender and sound often reflects biases about who should be allowed to take up sonic space: from historical assumptions that women’s voices were unsuitable for the radio, to contemporary biases in institutional policies that work to exclude the work of women in the music industry, as well as continued critiques of female speaking voices for expressing unappealing vocal traits like “uptalk” and “vocal fry”. This event will bring together a diverse panel to discuss these and other ways in…