Seeing Voices

Seeing Voices explores the phenomenon of music created in a signed language and argues that music can exist beyond sound and the sense of hearing, instead involving all of our senses, including vision and touch. Using a blend of tools from music theory, cognitive science, musicology, and ethnography, author Anabel Maler presents the history of music in Deaf culture from the early nineteenth century, contextualizes contemporary Deaf music through ethnographic interviews with Deaf musicians, and provides detailed analyses of a wide variety of genres of sign language music.

Auteur

Anabel Maler is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her research on sign language, Deafness, disability, and music has appeared in journals such as Music Theory Online, Music Perception, and the Journal of the Society for American Music. Her co-authored publication, "Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop" received the 2021 Adam Krims award from the Society for Music Theory. She previously taught at the University of Iowa and Indiana University.