Abstract
This paper elucidates the practice by which composers and DJs use the turntable to ‘scratch and mix’ samples of recorded female voices, thereby reframing them into new contextual forms. The paper focuses on two pieces: ‘Got ‘Til It's Gone’, a pop song by Janet Jackson and Q-Tip which samples and manipulates a fragment of Joni Mitchell's ‘Big Yellow Taxi’; and Christian Marclay's turntable scratching on the voice of the late Maria Callas. The discussion is interpolated with a reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's novel La Nausée, for his literary embodiment of the recorded voice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 337–345 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Contemporary Music Review |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2010 |
Keywords
- voice
- technology
- Marclay
- Callas
- electronic
- Sartre
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