British Journal of Aesthetics
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The BJA is a quarterly journal and among the world's leading venues for philosophical aesthetics. It is run by the British Society of Aesthetics and published by OUP.
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![In a remarkable feat of stamina, Neumark Jones gives a compelling performance in which he never leaves the stage, and the set […] never changes. This results in almost continuous movement at a frequently frenetic pace along a narrative track that meanders less than the novel’s on the way to its tragic terminus. If the novel is a tense commuter service stopping periodically at ominous stations, the play is a runaway express train on which the emergency brake has snapped.
- Nils-Hennes Stear, Review of The Passenger, Finborough Theatre, London](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chsp27b6x6v5fyeqzazfpspx/bafkreica4tz42vxixo5hvb45akci5sn7jqfcogiz4o273obotg7hp4kzlm@jpeg)
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![As our bodies age, we experience predictable changes in both appearance and functionality. […] The voice also ages, most notably because the vocal folds of the larynx become thinner and gradually harden (Stadelman-Cohen and Hillman 2019: 34). The singing voice changes with age, the vocal range diminishes, and therefore the prime years for many opera singers have been brief.
- Theodore Gracyk, The Beautiful Voice in Opera: The Injustice of Vocal Discrimination](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chsp27b6x6v5fyeqzazfpspx/bafkreia5kqdbofdh24z44r3tvz3qx6dnoaxhgxib7gd5j3pppe4plq5ypq@jpeg)
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![‘[Dana] Schutz could have produced an insightful work even without belonging to—or receiving acknowledgment from—the relevant group. Her failure would not so much depend on these aspects, but—as I will try to show—on her awkward artistic contribution to the story and image she takes as her subject.’
- María José Alcaraz León, An Artist’s Voice:
Expressive Achievement, Experiential Content, and Authority](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chsp27b6x6v5fyeqzazfpspx/bafkreibovrpom2yqdyamqkfihatqpydozmgrae7ttwysvpfkzfxdtgkyre@jpeg)
![Whether in discussions about colour-blind casting in Hollywood or major opera houses deciding if canonical stage works that problematically depict marginalized people should still be performed, the cultural implications of ‘giving voice’ to marginalized experiences and ideas through performance are more important now than ever. To date, these issues have remained largely untouched by philosophy, yet philosophy can bring important and distinctive understanding to the debate through ethical and aesthetic analysis of performance and embodied voice[.]
- Karen Simecek, Toby Young, Embodied Voices: An Introduction](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chsp27b6x6v5fyeqzazfpspx/bafkreif5qvw3m2crprloqm3z4vzxr4hidw5h7b4vouujydk7sijecptrb4@jpeg)
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