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In: Popular Music: The Key Concepts, 2002-04-11, S. 309-310
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This article presents information about various key terms and concepts beginning with the letter "v," related to popular music. Popular music is overwhelmingly a "voice music." The pleasure of singing, of hearing singers, is central to it, and "there is a strong tendency for vocals to act as a unifying focus within the song." A number of authors have discussed how the voice is used in popular music, particularly with regard to rock. Three main aspects are evident. First, attempts to distinguish between "black" and "white" voices, which tend to see the "black" voice as demonstrative and communicating through a variety of vocal techniques, and the "white" voice as more restrained and restricted. Three main aspects are evident. A third approach has been to associate specific genres with vocal styles, which are linked in turn to gender. Such distinctions are problematic because of their essentialist assumptions: "they emphasize only one aspect of vocal production, and attempt to read meaning into the voice's presence on the basis of that single aspect," ignoring that a multitude of factors characterize a vocal style.
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Zeitschrift: | Popular Music: The Key Concepts, 2002-04-11, S. 309-310 |
Quelle: | Popular Music: The Key Concepts; (2002-04-11) S. 309-310 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2002 |
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ISBN: | 978-0-203-01032-7 (print) |
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