PUBLICATIONS
Below are full-text selections from my body of written work. For a full list of my academic publications, please refer to my C.V. For further access to my publications, please visit my Academia.edu page or on Google Scholar.
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LIFE AS A CABARET: SINGING OUR IDEAL SELVES INTO BEING
TEACHING & AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY: Musical interaction – and particularly performing – is well understood as a vehicle for self-discovery and identity development, but there are relatively few secure performance environments for singers to explore. This chapter explores how singing, voice and identity intersect, and the potential cabaret performance holds for trans and cis-gender singers’ individual self-development.
2021 – Life as a Cabaret: Singing Our Ideal Self into Being, in Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education: Perspectives from the Field, ed. Power, B.P., G.D. Smith, Bristol: Intellect.
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To t or not to t: The transmasculine singing voice on hormone replacement therapy
LITERATURE REVIEW/RESEARCH: Because testosterone-based hormone replacement therapy (HRT) naturally lowers the mean fundamental frequency range of the singer’s voice, the transmasculine voice has historically been treated as a kind of “gold standard” for gender transition —take T, wait a year and voila: a male voice. However, the process of post-pubertal hormonal changes is far more complex than it superficially appears, particularly for the voice.
2022 – Voice & Speech Review (Volume 16, No. 2), To T or Not to T: The Transmasculine Singing Voice on HRT
Available courtesy of Francis & Taylor. Click here to read it online.
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Singing While Female: A NARRATIVE STUDY ON GENDER, IDENTITY & EXPERIENCE OF FEMALE VOICE IN CIS, TRANSMASCULINE & NON-BINARY SINGERS
DISSERTATION: This study explored the personal narratives of six AFAB singers to understand how their experiences informed their musical, vocal and gender identities and shaped their musical and vocal lives. The singers recounted their memories and understanding of significant events in their development, and together, each singer and I explored those recollections through a process of collaborative self-exploration.
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Ah, Clara, I am not worthy of your love: A Critical Analysis of "Er, der Herrlichste von Allen"
SONG ANALYSIS: Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -Leben song cycle has routinely been dismissed as misogynistic and trite, yet it remains frequently performed in the art song canon and in the discourse around gender and music, in general. A critical analysis of the second song in the cycle provides insight into the work’s longevity.
2016 – VoicePrints (Volume 14, No. 2): Ah Clara, I Am Not Worthy Of Your Love (Schumann Song Analysis)
