Nina Eidsheim is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies and Refiguring American Music. She has received a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a Cornell University Society of the Humanities Fellowship, the UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship and the ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship. She received her Bachelor of Music from the voice program at the Agder Conservatory (Norway); her MFA in vocal performance from the California Institute of the Arts; and her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego. Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology (UCLA); Associate Director for the Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center; and founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology and analysis in and through multisensory creative practices.
Past Short Courses
Thursday 24th October 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
The Race of Sound – Why Do We Think We Can Hear Race Vocally?
Nina Eidsheim
Why and how do we make assumptions about a person’s race, gender, or age based on the timbre of their voice? We will examine historical precedents for racialized listening to voices as well as contemporary realities, utilizing a framework for critically interrogating the racializing processes embedded in vocal and listening practices.
Thursday 10th October 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Singing and Listening as an Intermaterial Vibrational Practice
Nina Eidsheim
In this session, Nina will discuss her practice-based research which focuses on the materiality of singing and listening, and offer participatory exercises to help students begin to build their own vocal theory based on their practices.