Podcast for Social Research, Episode 64: Lucy Dhegrae—Music and Trauma

Episode 64 of the Podcast for Social Research is a live-recording of mezzo-soprano Lucy Dhegrae’s sound lecture, Music and Trauma, recently delivered at BISR Central. Between performances of selections from her acclaimed Processing Series, including the frenetic “Dithyramb” and the ethereal “No,” Dhegrae talks to BISR faculty Paige Sweet and Danielle Drori about the interrelationship—the push-pull—between trauma, body, psyche, and sound—particularly in the wake of traumatic experience. What does it mean to sublimate trauma, and how is it “felt” and processed in the body? How, moreover, is trauma expressible (and what does Julia Kristeva have to say about it)? How can we understand the difference between language and music, words and sounds? And how can we think about the relationship of the voice to the body, of “vibration against bone”?

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