A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph,
reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to
Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long
before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a
medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler
searches for traces of voices before Edison, reconstructing a
series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the
real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing
emperors blend with the imagined voices of lovesick nymphs,
tormented heroes, and angry gods. The resonant world we encounter
in ancient sources is at first unfamiliar, populated by texts that
speak and sing, often with no clear difference between the two. But
Butler discovers a commonality that invites a deeper understanding
of why voices mattered then and why they have mattered since. With
later examples that range from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix, Butler
offers an ambitious attempt to rethink the voice-as an anatomical
presence, a conceptual category, and a source of pleasure and
wonder. He carefully and critically assesses the strengths and
limits of recent theoretical approaches to the voice by Adriana
Cavarero and Mladen Dolar and makes a rich and provocative range of
ancient material available for the first time. The Ancient
Phonograph will appeal not only to classicists and to voice
theorists but to anyone with an interest in the verbal
arts-literature, oratory, song-and the nature of aesthetic
experience.
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