O presente trabalho realiza uma abordagem sobre o Narrador em diferentes contextos e sua relação, na atualidade, com a criança, tendo em vista o encantamento que caracteriza e surge de tal vínculo. Neste sentido, partimos de reflexões de W. Benjamim e P. Zumthor, dentre outros autores sobre os assuntos abordados, enriquecidas pela visão nascida da experiência prática com a narração para as crianças e o encantamento com ela relacionado, utilizando, como exemplo para análise, experiências da autora em teatro narrativo para crianças. Abrangemos aspectos diversos da arte do narrador e elementos que compõem sua atuação e destacamos a imprescindibilidade da relação próxima, direta e afetiva para a instauração do encantamento, que torna possível a troca de experiências, e o papel da vocalidade poética como protagonista nesse processo. / This work performs an approach on the Narrator in different contexts and their relationship, nowadays, with the child, considering the enchantment that characterizes and arises from this bond. Accordingly, W. Benjamin and P. Zumthor\'s reflections, as well as other authors, on the issues addressed were taken into account, enriched by the vision gained from the practical experience with storytelling for children and enchantment associated with it, based on the author\'s experiences with narrative theatre for children. Several aspects of the art of the narrator and elements that make up its performance were comprehended, and the indispensability of the close, direct and affective relationship for the development of enchantment was stood out, which makes possible the exchange of experiences and the role of poetic vocality as the protagonist in this process.

O presente trabalho realiza uma abordagem sobre o Narrador em diferentes contextos e sua relação, na atualidade, com a criança, tendo em vista o encantamento que caracteriza e surge de tal vínculo. Neste sentido, partimos de reflexões de W. Benjamim e P. Zumthor, dentre outros autores sobre os assuntos abordados, enriquecidas pela visão nascida da experiência prática com a narração para as crianças e o encantamento com ela relacionado, utilizando, como exemplo para análise, experiências da autora em teatro narrativo para crianças. Abrangemos aspectos diversos da arte do narrador e elementos que compõem sua atuação e destacamos a imprescindibilidade da relação próxima, direta e afetiva para a instauração do encantamento, que torna possível a troca de experiências, e o papel da vocalidade poética como protagonista nesse processo. / This work performs an approach on the Narrator in different contexts and their relationship, nowadays, with the child, considering the enchantment that characterizes and arises from this bond. Accordingly, W. Benjamin and P. Zumthor\'s reflections, as well as other authors, on the issues addressed were taken into account, enriched by the vision gained from the practical experience with storytelling for children and enchantment associated with it, based on the author\'s experiences with narrative theatre for children. Several aspects of the art of the narrator and elements that make up its performance were comprehended, and the indispensability of the close, direct and affective relationship for the development of enchantment was stood out, which makes possible the exchange of experiences and the role of poetic vocality as the protagonist in this process.

This thesis evaluates one Hopi oral tradition-Tiyo, the boy from Tokonavi-as a meaningful geographic discourse that reveals a landscape extending from the American Southwest to Mesoamerica and beyond. Hopi's understanding of their past and the significance of the land have evolved within larger struggles between Western and Native American views of time, space, and history. Instead of a static cartographic rendering, the story of Tiyo presents the land as a dynamic entity differentiated through religious and social relations. Theories of place making and materiality help validate a space coterminous with Hopi history and religion, and support a multi-vocal approach to the land. This work has implications for anthropological scholarship, and for the process of decolonizing dominant understandings of Hopi culture. It is equally relevant for historic preservation, indigenous sovereignty, and land claims. Most importantly, this research can assist the Hopi people in communicating cultural knowledge to future generations.

Masters of Art / Zora Neale Hurston is a significant figure in American fiction and is strongly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the period noted for the emergence of literature by people of African-American descent. Hurston worked as a writer of fiction and of anthropological research and this mini-thesis will discuss aspects of her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937. While the novel traces the psychological development of the central female character, Janie Mae Crawford and, thus, demonstrates several features of a conventional Bildungsroman, the novel also contains some intriguing innovations in respect of narration and voice. These innovations imply that the novel can be read in terms of the qualities commonly associated with the Modernist novel. This contention becomes significant when it is understood that a considerable degree of critical responses to the novel have discounted these connections. The novel is widely accepted to be a story about a woman’s journey to self-actualisation through the relationships she has with the men in her life. Much of the criticism related to the novel is based on this aspect of it, with many stating that Janie’s voice is often silenced by the third-person narrator at crucial moments in the text and that, as a consequence, she does not achieve complete self-actualisation by the end of the novel. This thesis will examine the significance of the shifts between first-person and thirdperson narration and the manifestations of other voices or means of articulation, which give the novel a multi-vocal quality. The importance of this innovation will also be considered, particularly when it is taken into account that Hurston sought to incorporate some elements associated with the oral tradition into her work as a writer of fiction.

Marcada pela exploração de suas próprias estruturas e condições de possibilidade, a obra de Waly Salomão (1943-2003) embaralha as fronteiras entre campos de produção, sob o signo do proteiforme. Entre meandros e amálgamas, suas práticas heterodoxas de composição operam um questionamento radical do estatuto do texto poético na contemporaneidade. Esta tese analisa as relações que se estabelecem entre escritura, gesto e vocalidade na poesia de Waly Salomão, especialmente nos livros Me segura queu vou dar um troço (1972) e Gigolô de bibelôs (1983), e nas performances poético-visuais, realizadas entre 1974 e 1977 e reunidas em catálogo da exposição Babilaques: alguns cristais clivados (2007). Por meio da leitura e análise dos poemas, bem como de ensaios e entrevistas do autor, pretende-se discutir a especificidade da enunciação walyana nos entremeios dos contextos tecnoculturais a partir dos quais se projeta e contra os quais se insurge. / Marked by the exploration of its own structures and the conditions of its possibility, the work of Waly Salomão (1943-2003) blurs the boundaries between production fields under the insignia of protean. Among meanders and amalgams, his heterodox compositional practices operate a radical questioning of the status of the poetic text in contemporaneity. This thesis analyzes the relationships established between writing, gesture, and vocality in Waly Salomão poetry, particularly in the books Me segura queu vou dar um troço (1972) and Gigolô de bibelôs (1983), and in the visual-poetic performances between 1974 and 1977, collected in the catalog of the exhibition titled Babilaques: alguns cristais clivados (2007). Through reading and analyzing the poems, as well as the authors essays and interviews, I discuss the particularity of the Walyan enunciation amid the techno-cultural contexts from which it protrudes and against which it insurrects.

Marcada pela exploração de suas próprias estruturas e condições de possibilidade, a obra de Waly Salomão (1943-2003) embaralha as fronteiras entre campos de produção, sob o signo do proteiforme. Entre meandros e amálgamas, suas práticas heterodoxas de composição operam um questionamento radical do estatuto do texto poético na contemporaneidade. Esta tese analisa as relações que se estabelecem entre escritura, gesto e vocalidade na poesia de Waly Salomão, especialmente nos livros Me segura queu vou dar um troço (1972) e Gigolô de bibelôs (1983), e nas performances poético-visuais, realizadas entre 1974 e 1977 e reunidas em catálogo da exposição Babilaques: alguns cristais clivados (2007). Por meio da leitura e análise dos poemas, bem como de ensaios e entrevistas do autor, pretende-se discutir a especificidade da enunciação walyana nos entremeios dos contextos tecnoculturais a partir dos quais se projeta e contra os quais se insurge. / Marked by the exploration of its own structures and the conditions of its possibility, the work of Waly Salomão (1943-2003) blurs the boundaries between production fields under the insignia of protean. Among meanders and amalgams, his heterodox compositional practices operate a radical questioning of the status of the poetic text in contemporaneity. This thesis analyzes the relationships established between writing, gesture, and vocality in Waly Salomão poetry, particularly in the books Me segura queu vou dar um troço (1972) and Gigolô de bibelôs (1983), and in the visual-poetic performances between 1974 and 1977, collected in the catalog of the exhibition titled Babilaques: alguns cristais clivados (2007). Through reading and analyzing the poems, as well as the authors essays and interviews, I discuss the particularity of the Walyan enunciation amid the techno-cultural contexts from which it protrudes and against which it insurrects.

[pt] Esta tese parte do desejo de compreender melhor de que modo os elementos materiais da voz deslocam os eixos de sentido da partitura-papel, redimensionando a experiência somática e semântica do ouvinte/receptor no âmbito da canção. No processo de pesquisa, investiu-se na sensibilização auditiva às sutilezas da palavra na música cantada, a fim de produzir análises que proponham reflexões a respeito da maneira como o intérprete reinventa um texto a partir de sua emissão vocal. Para tanto, em meio às lentes multifacetadas do cancioneiro nacional, optou-se por utilizar como bússola os chamados elementos materiais da voz – duração; intensidade; timbre e altura – com o objetivo de desenvolver microanálises técnicas/poéticas de cantores/cantoras de diferentes épocas e estilos, tendo como foco principal o manancial de canções que compõe a música popular brasileira. / [en] This thesis is based on the desire to better understand how the material elements of the voice shift the axes of meaning in the paper-score, redimensioning the somatic and semantic experience of the listener/receiver within the song. In the research process, it was decided to invest in hearing awareness of subtleties of the word in the sung music, in order to produce analyzes that propose reflections on how the interpreter reinvents a text from its vocal emission. For that, amid the multifaceted lenses of the national and global songbook, we choose to use as a compass the so-called material elements of the voice – duration, intensity, timbre and pitch – with the aim of develop technical/poetic micro-analyzes of singers from different times and styles, having as my main source of research the songs that make up Brazilian popular music.

La thèse vise à clarifier la notion de la voix et sa place dans la culture occidentale. La multiplicité de la voix est ici étudiée à partir de son origine biologique, fondement de toute expressivité vocale. Cette multiplicité est distinguée du verbal et du musical, ses principales manifestations dans la civilisation humaine. Dans le Chapitre 1 nous proposons une réflexion sur les modes naturels de la vocalité non langagière dont la communication holistique des espèces proto-humaines et l’expression vocale des jeunes enfants forment les principales manifestations. Le Chapitre 2 analyse les rapports du corps avec la voix en tant que signe de l’identité personnelle et preuve de la présence corporelle. Dans le Chapitre 3 nous traitons du statut de l’oralité définie comme la dimension sociale de la voix. Nous étudions l’influence de l’écriture et la domination du visuel exercée sur la voix. Les rapports entre la voix, le langage et la musique sont observés dans le Chapitre 4: nous demandons dans quel sens la voix, en dehors des structures verbales et musicales, peut avoir une signification. Le dernier chapitre est consacré à la voix musicale : une histoire de la voix musicale non verbale dans la tradition savante occidentale est esquissée. Le chant y est défini en tant qu’un acte fondamental de l’expressivité vocale chez l’homme, et non pas comme un art susceptible de superposer des structures linguistiques et musicales. Nous proposons une réflexion sur quelques exemples de l’art vocal contemporain sélectionnés selon leur rapport aux questions théoriques traitées dans la thèse. La thèse se veut comme un outil théorique dans le cadre de la théorie de la culture. / The present thesis aims at clarifying the notion of voice and its place in Western post-literacy culture from the aspect of vocal non-verbal expression and its artistization. The specificity of voice lies in its multiplicity, no single trait of voice may be viewed as representative of human vocality in its entirety. Rooted in human biology, vocal expressivity is inherently distinct from the verbal and the musical; Chapter 1 deals with natural modes of nonverbal vocality of proto-humans and pre-verbal children. A comparison of the functions of human and animal vocalization is made. In Chapter 2 the relation of voice to body is treated. We analyse voice as the mark of personal identity and physical presence. Chapter 3 looks into the question of orality, defined as the social dimension of voice, in post-literacy Western culture and analyse how the democratization of writing, printing, and recording may have influenced the status of voice. In Chapter 4 we ask whether voice outside the framework of language and music may convey meaning and whether such voice may be considered a sign. In the final chapter a brief historical overview of non-verbal vocal music is outlined and a proposition is made to define singing as a fundamental act of human vocal expressivity, not as an art form that superposes linguistic and musical structures. A selection of examples of contemporary voice art is subjected to theoretical reflection in the light of the issues related to vocal expressivity as discussed in the thesis. The aim of the thesis is to provide a theoretical tool for future researches on human expressive vocalization and its artistization in the field of culture studies.

Despite the apparent hegemony of vision in racial categorization, historically vocality has borne the brunt of as much racial presumption as physical appearance. This project explores ideas about Blackness, and how the voice in performance engenders conversations on racial authenticity within the United States. Broadly, the work examines how “sounding Black” functions within dramatic performance, and how wider concerns of racial identity adhere to a performer’s vocal choices. The contextualization of racialized sound presented in this project begins with an historical overview of how a “Blackness of tongue” has been framed in U.S. theatrical performance from the early 1800s through the 1960s. It then addresses the dynamics of voice and racial authenticity through two performance case studies: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro. These cases will be used to explore how issues of racial authenticity thrive in the space between vocal sound production and perception. As case studies based on specific productions of these two plays, text, directorial choices, and the vocal characteristics of the actors themselves occupy equal space at the center of each analysis. At a deeper level, this research seeks an understanding of the cultural assumptions that support the idea of a uniquely Black vocal sound, and what that sound purchases within American societies. In addressing both the phonological and the interpretive qualities of these performances, the central research concerns of this project attempt to pinpoint with more accuracy how voice, fore-grounded in performance, triggers different sets of assumptions that have been commonly identified as a significant component of Blackness / text

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Teresinha de Oliveira Ledo Kersch.pdf: 13265332 bytes, checksum: 4386e7cfbb13823a6865cb1b514a2638 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The main objective of this research is to apprehend the construction of The Tragic and the intentionality of a poetic voice that inscribes the reader s body on the text in the play Uma mulher vestida de sol, by Ariano Suassuna. We believe that this play is a kind of a Dionysian tragedy , which incorporates comic and popular elements, in order to intensify its performance. The play has three acts and tells the story of the love between two young people, Francisco and Rosa, both love each other but come from families who fight because of land pieces in the wilderness of Taperoá. We use Poética by Aristóteles as the theoretical basis and Paul Zumthor s theory on performance. The first one names and discusses the elements of Tragedy and the second one, the elements of voice in popular culture; we can read about the latter in books such as Performance, recepção e leitura and Escritura e nomadismo. Suassuna s work does not only dialogue with the canonical texts of the universal literature, but also with popular culture, with specific kinds of texts produced in Brazil such as cordel literature, folhetos, almanaques, rezas and cantorias (stories on strings, leaflets, almanacs, prayers and songs). We focus on the insertion of Suassuna s Theater in the Armorial Movement and we propose the search of oral sources using Zumthor s concept of movência (mouvance). The results of this research highlight that the intention in the play performance is expanded because of the oral elements brought by the popular culture / O objetivo primordial desta pesquisa é apreender, em Uma mulher vestida de sol, de Ariano Suassuna, a construção do Trágico e a intenção performática de uma voz poética que inscreve o corpo do leitor no texto. Acreditamos que esta peça constitua uma espécie de tragédia dionisíaca , que incorpora elementos cômicos e populares, de maneira a ampliar sua performance. A peça é composta de três atos e trata do amor entre dois jovens, Francisco e Rosa, cujas famílias viviam em meio à rivalidade por causa de uma briga por terras no sertão de Taperoá. A fundamentação teórica alicerça-se na Poética de Aristóteles, que conceitua e discute a tragédia; e na teoria de Paul Zumthor acerca da performance, presente em livros como Performance, recepção e leitura; e Escritura e nomadismo. A obra de Suassuna não dialoga apenas com os textos canônicos da literatura universal, mas também com a cultura popular, com textos como folhetos de cordel, almanaques, rezas, cantorias. O enfoque que propomos considera a inserção do teatro suassuniano no Movimento Armorial e propõe uma busca de fontes orais, a partir do conceito de movência de Zumthor. Os resultados da pesquisa ressaltam que a intenção de performance da peça amplia-se pela valorização dos elementos vocais, oriundos da cultura popular