This seminar course explores two music-related subjects that are highly relatable to many, if not most, modern lives: the singing voice and the music listener. It will discuss the connection between the singing voice and the music listener from various perspectives based on excerpts of selected texts written by musicologists, anthropologists, humanities scholars, and cultural critics such as Roland Barthes (on the grain of the voice), Judith Becker (on deep listeners), Lawrence Kramer (on songfulness), Allison McCracken (on crooners), Jean-Luc Nancy (on listening), Dylan Robinson (on hungry listening), Anthony Seeger (on why Suyá sing), and Christine Yano (on enka singing). It will guide students to reflect on the sociocultural significance of the singing voice and the music listener in their personal, artistic, and/or professional lives. It also aims to lead students to recognize how the singing voice and the music listener have been inseparable from the material, aesthetic, and technological conditions that give rise to particularities in perception, practices, and values.