The Beatles and Vocal Expression

ISBN-13: 9781032346069 / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str.

Blaithin Duggan

Opis

The Beatles and Vocal Expression presents a mixed-methodology for analysing paralinguistic voice qualities, which give rise to performative expressive tropes, that are retained on recordings. Such tropes convey a series of paralinguistic personae that challenge identity construction in song.

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Contents

 

Contents

List of Tables

List of Analytical Examples

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

 

1. Rethinking The Beatles
2. Before The Beatles: 1950s American Popular Song
3. Primary Voice Qualities: Arch Shaped Intonation
4. Vocal Qualifiers: Vocal Fry, Falsetto, and Head Voice
5. Vocal Alternants: Stop Time and Pauses in Interaction
6. Differentiators: Laughter and Crying in Vocal Performance
7. Paralanguage and Inter-Song Thematic Processes
8. Paralinguistic Personae and The Beatles

 

O autorze

Bláithín Duggan is a part-time lecturer at Dublin City University. Bláithín’s research focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis and interpretation of nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular song. This encompasses music theory and analysis, sound studies, performance studies, and paralinguistics. In 2020, Bláithín’s doctoral thesis ‘Paralanguage and The Beatles’, completed under the supervision of Dr Simon Trezise at Trinity College Dublin, was awarded the inaugural Society for Musicology in Ireland Harry White doctoral medal.