In charting the “territory between speech and song,” Cummins (2020) identifies various forms of vocal behavior involving “multiple people uttering the same thing at the same time”—what the author calls “joint speech.” I interrogate this conceptual framework in light of specific examples both musical and linguistic, which suggest a usefully expanded category: “collaborative vocality.” At the same time, I also propose a distinctly musical account of joint speech that ultimately affirms the conventional separation between music and language. Central to this account is an analysis of the unique character of singing and an insistence on the centrality of pleasure in musical experience.

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联合讲话

在绘制“语音和歌曲之间的区域”的图表时，康明斯（Cummins，2020）确定了多种形式的声音行为，涉及“多个人同时发声相同的事物”，即作者所说的“共同讲话”。我根据音乐和语言学方面的具体示例来询问这个概念框架，这些示例提出了一个有用的扩展类别：“合作人声”。同时，我还提出了一种关于联合演讲的独特音乐说明，最终证实了音乐和语言之间的传统分离。对此进行分析的重点是对唱歌的独特性的分析以及对音乐体验中享乐性的坚持的坚持。