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ike trying to appreciate music by looking at a score as a voice and text coach i teach people to experience words in their entire bodies to allow full and free breaths in and to be physically open to the powerful images such words create kristin linklater writes when words are mainly experienced in the head and the mouth they convey cerebral meaning by indulging sensory sensual emotional and physical responses to vowels and consonants the component parts of words we begin to resurrect the life of language what does teaching others how to speak poetry have to do with social justice having engaged with many people in a myriad of contexts about identity race oppression white privilege and hegemony i have come to realize that intellectual debate a somewhat western idea in the first place has its limitations when it comes to making social progress as a community this is because oppression is by nature irrational debate statistics and logistics all have their valuable place when it comes to dialoguing about things like racism i am an academic i love these things i love catching people in logical fallacies i love finding a fact that flies in the face of some broad stroke and i love seeing the impact i ve had on others through calm and diplomatic reasoning i just don t think this is enough because i am not just an academic i am an artist and a performer richard shusterman writes that rational arguments for multi cultural tolerance always seem to fail because the hatred is acquired not by rational means but by the captivating aesthetic power of images images from our tv laptop phones movie screens if this is true then perhaps we can create movement from the other direction i believe the gap that keeps oppressed people silent and privileged people from listening is about empathy i do not mean this as a platitude i am talking about real embodied feel it in your bones and under your skin and through your breath empathy david granger has written a fantastic article about teaching and oppression called somaesthetics and racism toward an embodied pedagogy of difference 2010 arguing that culture with its complex of symbol systems ideals values beliefs and customs has its roots in the lived body my emphasis therefore just talking rationally about oppression is not sufficient for progress we perpetuate unjust systems because of something deeper in us our breath and chest tightening when we get defensive our tension in our shoulders deepening when we see a black male on the street our jaw clenching when privilege is mentioned when we teach people to embody the images that spring up from powerful speeches poetry or other types of text we are seeking to breathe the way that speaker breathed see what they saw and feel what they felt this is beyond rationalizing and intellectualizing it is empathy and understanding in a physical sense a gut sense and a heart sense kelty s poem is well written and powerful he clearly uses the length of lines and punctuation to indicate to us how he imagined trayvon martin s father s breath patterns to be he gives us long vowels to express his grief and sharp plosive sounds to convey scathing anger and energy i have never known what it feels like to lose my own child or to have a black body in a dominant white culture but speaking this poem and honoring its soundscape and rhythms opens my body towards a greater capacity for connecting to trayvon s father s pain his stark images his rage and grief and his building breathlessness all create a physical experience in my body as i speak kelty s words therefore i am able to feel a greater connectivity to others who have suffered from similar injustices and to my own pain for being a woman of color who has experienced oppression as well i am grateful and inspired by movements such as blackpoetsspeakout and i am honored they gave me their blessing to tag this piece there is a reason this movement started and that millions are physically gathering together in the us to show solidarity it is because being with other bodies and allowing our voices to be a live resonant chorus moves us in powerful ways black lives matter greatly until more of us get beyond only intellectualizing that and truly feel a sense of shared humanity in our bones and our breath i fear we will continue to struggle posted in blog poetry video tagged body breath culture dominant culture education gender hegemony identity intersectionality poem poetry privilege race racism repetition social justice speech technology stereotypes united states voice vowels white people leave a reply someone complimented me on my english last summer this was my response posted on august 26 2014 by amy mihyang ginther 3 this is a new performance piece i wrote for the vasta cabaret in london this summer at my alma mater the royal central school of speech and drama i workshopped it at perry mansfield performing arts school and camp which i am quite proud to say that i am now summer faculty there teaching voice and speech this piece has lived in me for over a year now as the actual incident that opens the performance happened during the summer of 2013 in brooklyn i felt like it was important to highlight the idea that oppression does not come in only explicit hateful forms but from the educated and millennial peers that i hang out and work with in my progressive circles when microaggressions happen i don t always want to confront the person and give them some diatribe about social justice sometimes i just want to drink my fucking cocktail storytelling and performance allow me to express all the things i think and feel in that moment when i was made to feel small and hopefully i can share it with more people this way and they will be more open to seeing their own complicity in these structures because performance leads to a type of distanced perspective that gives us more space to reflect a number of people have asked me what my process is for creating this type of work for this piece in particular i allowed it to sit in me for many months not putting anything on paper a month or so before perry mansfield i made a basic mind map of major milestones that i wanted to cover then i began to look up songs and lyrics to see how i could weave them into my stories after over a year of blogging about voice and identity and culture and social justice and theatre it is wonderful to create something that is exactly the thing i d find online and want to post about anyway i m grateful to my hofstra seoul perry mansfield and vasta families for all their support through this process posted in video tagged academia accents adoptees adoption culture dialects dominant culture education hegemony identity interculturalism intersectionality privilege race racism repetition sociolinguistics stereotypes united states voice white people 3 replies our voices have been silenced and it s not doing us any good posted on april 16 2014 by amy mihyang ginther 1 a brilliant and moving tedx talk by australian singer and social entrepreneur tania de jong am on how voice makes us healthier happier and connects us as a community this is a perfect video to watch today which is world voice day tania says the neuroscience of singing shows that when we sing our neurotransmitters connect in new and different ways firing up the right temporal lobe of our brain releasing endorphins that make us smarter healthier happier and more creative and you know what s really great about this when we do this with other people the effects are amplified see guys this is what voice coaches have known for ages when you sing or speak free of judgment you feel good you feel connected to others and alive and empowered last week a friend called me on skype she s been going through some tough stuff lately and it all seemed to be catching up with her in an intense way i listened there wasn t a lot of constructive advice for me to give really she just needed to be heard she told me that she did some yelling and screaming in anger which is a really good release but i thought perhaps she ll feel better if we sing together so we did via skype sitting on two very different continents she felt better i felt better we did something beyond rationalizing or neurotic analyzing we just breathed and vibrated as an adoptee living in seoul and working in social justice i believe this type of work can heal trauma but also be just as radical and effective as a type of activism as protests or petitions watch the video in full to see how singing together has enabled and affected concrete social change there is space for all these types of activism and they all serve unique and vital functions as tania says we need to step out of all our boxes and that includes oppressive identity boxes as well we need to breathe and resonate together and enjoy the time we can be in our bodies with others in safe and creative spaces i will be teaching my first voice and empowerment workshop specifically for korean adoptees here in seoul in may and my first workshop for women in nyc in june details to come this is the way i am choosing to engage and enrich the lives of others this is the way i choose to use my gifts and teaching and time to be an activist and it is amazing happy world voice day everyone i am so happy and grateful to be doing what i m doing and to be supporting others in finding their voices onstage and off in our classrooms in our society for ourselves posted in video tagged adoptees adoption choir choral work culture dominant culture education hegemony identity neuroscience singing song 1 reply black vocal cadence when our tone can mean life or death posted on april 2 2014 by amy mihyang ginther reply the deaths of trayvon martin and jordan davis do i need to say there have been many more has prompted some important discussion about the way we view these young men in public spaces and how we interpret the way they speak john mcwhorter recently examined the black male vocal cadence in an article at the root in a piece titled do white folks fear violence when black folks are just being blunt he writes yet in an honest and perhaps more productive discussion of this topic we have to allow something uncomfortable the possibility that language plays a part in the stereotype to whites i highly suspect that often black boys and men have a way of sounding violent and i would add to this the stereotypes of black women being thought of as confrontational aggressive loud and angry i experienced this directly during my undergraduate degree on long island i was on a peer counselor team for a few of the summers pcs were in charge of the incoming students during their 3 day overnight orientation for the school it was the first time i was ever put on a staff that was roughly half black and half white the first year i did the job it didn t take very long for racial tensions to begin the white women were complaining that the black team members were too loud and aggressive during the staff meetings and they found it intimidating the black women responded with frustration and resistance as they were just talking how they normally do and didn t mean anything personal by it but others were interpreting it differently and taking offense despite the tensions the upper management did a fairly decent job forcing us to talk this out openly and come to level of understanding that allowed us to work together and forge friendship with each other for the rest of the summer but that experience taught me a valuable lesson about tone communication signals and assumption mcwhorter writes however if outsiders hearing it don t get the joke and wonder whether black people especially boys are feisty souls then the problem is less racism than an intercultural misinterpretation as someone who teaches accents dialects and efl pronunciation i try to engage my students and clients with this idea of intercultural misinterpretation i talk about the prejudice of our listening and try to make explicit how our communication is heavy with cultural signals to an american mandarin speakers can sound angry british people sound posh eastern european speakers can sound serious we make judgements based on people s vocal tone all the time i liken our use of language and tone as a type of computer program or a genre of music when another person hits the notes or code in a different way we misinterpret the emotional state personality and or intentions of the listener if you add in a healthy dose of privilege hegemony and standard language ideology now you have a sense that an interpretation of how someone speaks is right or wrong correct or incorrect appropriate or inappropriate suddenly there is an authority whether it is the justice system teachers businesses or the media but perhaps more importantly we need to share and teach this idea to those from a dominant white culture so they can critically reflect a bit more about language tone and identity instead of interpreting things through their own privileged experience and lens when we work with the voices of actors of color or those from a pluralistic background we must bear all of this in mind as educators hegemony and the privilege of our own interpretation do not stop at the door of our classrooms and rehearsal studios and in trying to find our students true voices we must acknowledge that this navigation may be complicated given the socio political dynamics between classmates and faculty and we must acknowledge that we may not always like what their true voice sounds like and are potentially prone to misinterpret it culturally lastly sometimes people of color are actually angry and that is totally okay too considering the severe inequity in our country there is a lot to be upset about mcwhorter points out that for a people whose history has been so confrontational maybe it isn t surprising that their speech reflects it posted in article tagged academia accents culture dialects dominant culture education hegemony identity interculturalism pedagogy privilege pronunciation race racism sociolinguistics stereotypes theatre tone united states white people leave a reply our consistent diversity gap amongst the liberal hollywood elite posted on march 2 2014 by amy mihyang ginther reply lee low this infographic has gotten some great traffic and i thought i d also share given the timeliness of the ceremony tonight this is about reminding the performing arts and entertainment community that we cannot just pat ourselves on the back for creating beautiful work we need to be more inclusive of telling everyone s stories and using a beautiful and diverse range of people to help tell them we still have much further to go on this posted in image tagged casting culture dominant culture industry privilege race racism stereotypes united states white people leave a reply isn t it sad that i can t use my real voice with white people posted on february 12 2014 by amy mihyang ginther reply 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