- Title
- 'The too vigorous use of a new broom’: towards a methodology for analysing the gendered meanings of sound in history
- Creator
- Horne Fisher, Catherine
- Relation
- Humanity Vol. 7
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle/Macquarie University
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The role of sound as an historical source has recently begun to gain greater attention within history, with Greg Goodale arguing for the importance of sonic sources in understanding the complex experiences of the past. As is perhaps concordant with an emerging area of research, coherent methodologies to deconstruct sound historically have not yet been adequately developed. This article begins to address this problem through the development of a methodological approach to analysing the gendering of sound. Using the recording of Dame Enid Lyons’s maiden speech to Australian federal parliament as a case study, I analyse how recordings of speech can be ‘read’ to reveal how gender was constructed in specific ways. I argue that Lyons vocally constructed a version of political femininity using particular speech markers, vocabularies and pitch ranges. This article therefore breaches the boundaries of historical analysis by developing a new approach for analysing a neglected type of source material – sound recordings.
- Subject
- sound; history; Breaching boundaries; Humanity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1466853
- Identifier
- uon:47683
- Identifier
- ISSN:2206-592X
- Rights
- NewMac Humanity Journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unreported Licence to all articles, with the principle that there should be no financial barriers to access to information. The Attribution-Noncommercial Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode) allows people freely copy, distribute, remix, and build upon contributors’ work, provided it is not used to make a profit and the original authors and NewMac Humanity Journal are appropriately acknowledged. These conditions can be waived if author, as copyright holder, grants potential users explicit permission. Copyrighted material may be included in articles provided authors duly acknowledge source or provide proof of written permission for such use from the copyright holder.
- Language
- eng
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