Earlier today I was listening to The Story with Dick Gordon on WUNC91.5FM and it was about the persuasive power of the human voice. This is something I was always interested in.
The guest was Anne Karpf, author of Human Voice. It was one of those extra-long driveway moments because the topic was so interesting, she is so insightful (and has a great sense of humor), and had several clips of people like FDR, Churchill, Reagan, Bush and Blair with added analysis of their voices, as well as some cultural comparisons, the development of language, etc.
I am about to put the book on my wish list and will try to get it as soon as possible.
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According to this article (and the podcast of the NPR show linked there), you should like my deep voice. I got it from my Dad.
The term phonagnosia refers to an inablity to recognize familiar voices or to discriminate between unfamiliar ones.
The always interesting Timothy Burke has a post that's basically a long links dump pointing to two articles about the state of humanities in academia, which includes a sort of aside that is more interesting to me
I just borrowed this from the library. I started reading it a few nights ago. It looks really interesting.