Who We Be: Agency, Performativity, and Collegiate A Cappella

Music & Peacebuilding

In this podcast, we take a tour with Dr. Brent Talbot on Talbot and Mantie’s research into American collegiate a cappella singing through the lens of agency, performativity, and leisure. Our performances of gender, sexuality, and identity are often rooted within larger frameworks and can be liberated from these frameworks in exploring new ways of being through musical practices. We close this two part series with the replay of a powerful speech that ties together agency, narrative, performativity, and Balinese collectivism.

The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

Chapters

1. Who We Be: Agency, Performativity, and Collegiate A Cappella (00:00:00)

2. What Drew Them (00:02:01)

3. Lifelong Music Making (00:05:26)

4. Gender and Sexuality (00:07:38)

5. Addressing Harm (00:12:02)

6. Implications for Schools (00:14:52)

7. Performativity (00:16:09)

8. Convocation Speech (00:23:03)

9. Who We Be (00:31:04)