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A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice
Contributor(s): Malawey, Victoria (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190052201     ISBN-13: 9780190052201
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $115.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2020
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Instruction & Study - Theory
- Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal
- Music | Instruction & Study - Voice
Dewey: 782.421
LCCN: 2019052485
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" L (1.05 lbs) 214 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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