Article
Signed Music and Deaf Musicians: A Follow-Up Dialogue Between Youssouf, Witcher, and Cripps
Theatre Research in Canada
(2022)
Abstract
This forum focuses on a journey in understanding and appreciating signed music as a performing art
from deaf musicians. Signed music is an emerging inter-performative art form that includes lyrical
and/or non-lyrical musical performances connecting to the culture of deaf people who communicate
through signed languages. This forum follow-ups with the three signed music deaf musicians who
participation in the Partition/Ensemble 2020 Conference, which was held in Montreal, Quebec, in
the summer of 2020, and was organized by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and the
Societe quebecoise d'etudes theatrales. Deaf musicians from around Canada convened in this plenary
to discuss how they used their creativity, research, and scholarship to produce signed music works.
The follow-up dialogue, in which Youssouf, Witcher, and Cripps participated, discusses their paths
with new projects. They responded to three different questions: 1) What have we learned from the
plenary? 2) Are there any new signed music pieces? If yes, expand on your piece; and 3) Are there
any new works related to signed music (mentorship, research, etc.)? If yes, expand on your new work.
Keywords
- Signed Music,
- Deaf Musicians,
- Mentorship,
- Signed Languages,
- Performance Arts
Disciplines
Publication Date
2022
DOI
10.3138/tric.43.2.f01
Publisher Statement
University of Toronto Press
Citation Information
Jody H Cripps, Pamela E Witcher and Hodan Youssouf. "Signed Music and Deaf Musicians: A Follow-Up Dialogue Between Youssouf, Witcher, and Cripps" Theatre Research in Canada Vol. 43 Iss. 2 (2022) p. 266 - 275 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jody-cripps/2/