Scholar

Gelsey Bell received her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University in January 2015. Her research focuses on the voice, song, twentieth-century music and performance, contemporary philosophy, technology, the quotidian, speech pathology, and social justice.

She teaches performance and composition at the College of Performing Arts at the New School in New York City. She is a Contributing Editor for TDR/The Drama Review: the Journal of Performance Studies and an Associate Editor for The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies.

Publications

Profound Connectivity: A Social Life of Music During the Pandemic

TDR/The Drama Review • T249, Volume 65, Number 1, Spring 2021

Gestural Song Form in Experimental Vocal Music

Performance Research • v. 25, n. 1: 2019

Tracing Voice Through the Career of a Musical Pioneer: A Conversation with Pauline Oliveros

Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies • v.2, n.1: 2017

The Value of a Makie-Uppie: Banana Bag & Bodice’s LongYarn

TDR/The Drama Review • (T233), 61, 1:2017

Extended Vocal Technique and Joan La Barbara: The Relational Ethics ofVoice on the Edge of Intelligibility

Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies • vol. 1, no. 2: 2016

Opera and the Folds of Time in the Prototype Festival

TDR/The Drama Review • (T232) 60, 4:2016

Zeena Parkins and the Play of Translation and Response

Movement Research Performance Journal • #43: 2013

Lindsay, Arto

Grove Dictionary of American Music • 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2013

What Was The War Like?: An Interview with Josh Fox on Surrender

TDR/The Drama Review • (T214) 56, 1:2012 (co-authored with James Ball)

Driving Deeper into That Thing: The Humanity of Heiner Goebbels’sStifters Dinge

TDR/The Drama Review • (T207) 54, 2: 2010

Review of FLUXCONCERT 20080925-27

Women & Performance • 19, 3: 2009