Voice Lessons
Abstract This paper reflects on the national referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament that took place in Australia in mid-October 2023. At the time of writing, the aftershocks from the failure of the referendum to gain the necessary majorities were still being felt keenly by many of the Voic...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/aee.2024.17 2024-06-23T07:52:50+00:00 Voice Lessons Levy, Gary 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.17 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S081406262400017X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Australian Journal of Environmental Education page 1-13 ISSN 0814-0626 2049-775X journal-article 2024 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.17 2024-06-05T04:04:54Z Abstract This paper reflects on the national referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament that took place in Australia in mid-October 2023. At the time of writing, the aftershocks from the failure of the referendum to gain the necessary majorities were still being felt keenly by many of the Voice advocates and supporters. The hurt and grief of many First Nations people were shared by millions of non-Indigenous “Yes” voters, while much reckoning continued in the subsequent weeks and months. The author here explores what might have been gained if more attention had been given to what an Indigenous Voice to Parliament might “sound like,” instead of the excessive focus on, and public discourse around what it might “look like.” Resources from the philosophies and physiology of voice, communication ethics, cultural studies, critical anthropology, Australian Indigenous writing and scholarship, and psychoanalytic politics are utilised to explore the connections between the human voice, vocal expression, hearing and listening, silence and song. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Cambridge University Press Australian Journal of Environmental Education 1 13 |
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Abstract This paper reflects on the national referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament that took place in Australia in mid-October 2023. At the time of writing, the aftershocks from the failure of the referendum to gain the necessary majorities were still being felt keenly by many of the Voice advocates and supporters. The hurt and grief of many First Nations people were shared by millions of non-Indigenous “Yes” voters, while much reckoning continued in the subsequent weeks and months. The author here explores what might have been gained if more attention had been given to what an Indigenous Voice to Parliament might “sound like,” instead of the excessive focus on, and public discourse around what it might “look like.” Resources from the philosophies and physiology of voice, communication ethics, cultural studies, critical anthropology, Australian Indigenous writing and scholarship, and psychoanalytic politics are utilised to explore the connections between the human voice, vocal expression, hearing and listening, silence and song. |
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