In preparation for tomorrow, Group 1 has prepared the following questions for class discussion. These are inquiries that we will likely use to illuminate both Barthes and Zeffirelli’s Callas Forever (2002):
The Beatles’ “Twist and Shout”:
Is one’s voice that voices itself through a particular body always the same?
Can there ever be an “authentic voice”?
Is Bathes’ understanding of the body that “figures” the “grain of the voice” invariable?
Los Cojolites’ “El Conejo”
What does the naked voice sound like? What does a clothed or disguised voice sound like?
Is the naked voice the most honest voice, singing the story “without disguise”?
Is the "grain of the voice" in this song signifying something more than merely anticipating a rabbit?
The Gregory Brothers’ “Bed Intruder Song”
Is this a song completely devoid of the “grain of the voice”? Has the “grain” been skinned alive?
If Fischer-Dieskau’s voice is Apollonian, can Antoine Dodson’s voice crushed through The Gregory Brother’s auto-tune machine be understood as the Socratic voice?
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