Trowell, I.M. orcid.org/0000-0001-6039-7765 (2018) Spiel, patter or sound effect: Tracking the residual voice on the travelling fun fair. Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 3 (1). pp. 7-20. ISSN 2057-0341
Abstract
The travelling fun-fair, emerging from trade and hiring fairs prior to the twentieth century, is a beguiling and uncharted realm of illusion, deception, thrill and adventure. It offers a glimpse of the improbable and impossible, and a taste or touch of the unattainable. There is an immediate and overwhelming polysensory overload, of sight, of sound, light, smell, disorientation, performance and serendipitous sociality. This article tracks the voice on the travelling fun-fair and asks whether the contemporary situation, examining two specific examples of voice, is a continuation or break with tradition. The voice is approached through a nested consideration of the overall experience, the cacophonous soundscape (music, scream, mechanical noise), and finally a totality of voices as an element within the soundscape. This phenomenological approach – from the point of view of the ‘punter’ – is then balanced with a historical consideration of the showperson’s voice. These two approaches are then combined to examine the continuity of cultural tradition.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Intellect. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | travelling fun-fair; showpeople; spiel; popular culture; Dutch voice; sampling |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2018 15:26 |
Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2019 00:41 |
Published Version: | htps://doi.org/10.1386/jivs.3.1.7_1 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Intellect |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1386/jivs.3.1.7_1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129519 |