epigraph in Weidman "The possibility of sound reproduction reorients the practices of sound production; insofar as it is a possibility at all, reproduction precedes originality."


"people had to learn how to understand the relations between sounds made by people and sounds made by machines" 216 idea of sound fideltiy and the idea of a recording as a reproduction of an "original" performance are not natural results of the process of recording but particular ways of conceiving of that process (Weidman's paraphrase, 322)

Jane Hill's article "The Consciousness of Grammar and the Grammar of Consciousness" uses Bakhtin's concepts of the multivocality of utterances (Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, 1984) to "suggest that political and social relations are reflected in the way voices compete within any single utterance" (cited in Amanda Weidman's Singing the Classical Voicing the Modern in context of violin's influence on voice, p. 34).

Association b/t women, the voice, and the artifical or technological has a long history in European discourse on the arts. Female prodigies are represented as sexless or artifical angels emblematic of sublime and artistic modernity. (Weidman 124)

many of the institutions and ideas associated with modernity were linked to colonial modes of knowledge production and strucutres of power