A Blaze of Light in Every Word - Victoria Malawey
Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice
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The human singing voice holds immense power - to convey mood, emotion, and identity in songs, provide music's undeniable "wow" moments, and communicate a pop song's meaning perhaps more than any other musical parameter. And unlike the other aspects of musical content - like harmony, form, melody, and rhythm, for which generations of scholars have formed sophisticated analyses - scholarly approaches to vocal delivery remain grossly underdeveloped. An exciting and much-needed new approach, A Blaze of Light in Every Word presents a systematic and encompassing conceptual model for analyzing vocal delivery.
Author Victoria Malawey focuses on three overlapping areas of inquiry - pitch, prosody, and quality - while drawing on research from music theory and pedagogy as well as gender studies and philosophy to situates the sonic and material aspects of vocal delivery among broader cultural, philosophical, and anthropological approaches to voice.
Malawey develops a much-needed and innovative set of analytical tools through in-depth analyses of popular song recordings in genres spanning from hip hop to death metal. A Blaze of Light in Every Word brings new clarity to the relationship between the voice's sonic content and its greater signification, helping us understand the complexity and uniqueness of singing voices.
- Includes in-depth analysis of a wide array of popular song recordings
- Develops innovative tools for analyzing individual dimensions of the singing voice
- Enables mapping of dimensions of the voice to the meaning relayed to the listener
- Paperback 224 Pages | 33 music examples, 43 figures
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- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Voice? Why Voice Analysis?
- Chapter 2: Pitch
- Chapter 3: Prosody
- Chapter 4: Quality
- Chapter 5: The Area in Between: Mediation with Technology
- Chapter 6: Synthesis, or Why Covers of Elliott Smith Songs Don't Work
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