The Beatles and Vocal Expression examines popular song through the topic of paralanguage - a sub-category of nonverbal communication that addresses characteristics of speech that modify meaning and convey emotion. It responds to the general consensus regarding the limitations of Western art music notation to analyse popular song, assesses paralinguistic voice qualities giving rise to expressive tropes within and across songs, and lastly addresses gaps in existing Beatles scholarship.
Taking The Beatles' UK studio albums (1963-1970), paralinguistic voice qualities are examined in relation to concepts, characteristics, metaphors, and functions of paralanguage in vocal performance. Tropes, such as rising and falling intonation on words of woe, have historical connections to performative and conversational techniques. This interdisciplinary analysis is achieved through musicology, sound studies, applied linguistics, and cultural history. The new methodology locates paralinguistic voice qualities in recordings, identifies features, shows functions, and draws aural threads within and across popular songs.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Undergraduate Advanced
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60 s/w Abbildungen, 60 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 4 s/w Tabellen
4 Tables, black and white; 60 Halftones, black and white; 60 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-1-032-34606-9 (9781032346069)
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Blaithin Duggan is a part-time lecturer at Dublin City University. Blaithin'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, Blaithin'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.
Contents
Contents
List of Tables
List of Analytical Examples
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Rethinking The Beatles
Before The Beatles: 1950s American Popular Song
Primary Voice Qualities: Arch Shaped Intonation
Vocal Qualifiers: Vocal Fry, Falsetto, and Head Voice
Vocal Alternants: Stop Time and Pauses in Interaction
Differentiators: Laughter and Crying in Vocal Performance
Paralanguage and Inter-Song Thematic Processes
Paralinguistic Personae and The Beatles
