To investigate how music educators engage their students with Hip-Hop, we adopted a
“research remix” approach, combining elements of case study and constructivist grounded …

This article examines the structural and semiotic functions of vocables in rap music.
Analytical studies of the rapping voice have predominantly focused on lyrics, rhyme, accent …

[0.1] Corpus studies are powerful tools for analysis due to their ability to examine trends
across a relevant body of work. Traditional approaches to music corpus development …

Beginning in the late 1980s, North American hip-hop music grew into a dominant cultural
force. Regional scenes boasted their own MCs (rappers) whose individual musical styles …

This article proposes a theory of flow (the rapped vocals of hip-hop music) segmentation,
phrasing, and meter that considers the way linguistic, syntactic, articulative, and corporeal …

The art of signed music involves the use of rhythmicized signs from a signed language, such
as American Sign Language (ASL), in a musical context. Signed music encompasses a …

After twenty years of published analyses on rap lyrics and flow, a divide between music-
oriented and literature-oriented writing remains. It is only slightly hyperbolic to suggest that …

In this article, I explore the availability of multiple pitch centers in poprock songs that emerge
from the application of what John Covach has called" positional listening." I demonstrate …

Ye's song “Through the Wire” exists in two versions. The first was recorded in late 2002 after
a near-fatal car crash and features Ye rapping through a jaw wired shut as he recovered …

This work begins with an exploration of various analytical techniques for discerning and
describing details of vocal performance in the song “Episodes,” from Philadelphia Hip Hop …