The networks of cortical and subcortical fields that contribute to speech production have
benefitted from many years of detailed study, and have been used as a framework for …

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic rise in dissertations, theses, and other
academic publications exploring hip-hop music, while college courses on hip-hop history …

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 …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the uniqueness of the pop singing genre by
determining the role of the Chinese language in the creation of popular singing in education …

This article builds on existing scholarship, both in art music and in popular music, to craft a
conception of “phrase” in hip-hop. After briefly contextualizing my ideas, I describe in detail …

In this article, I argue that pitch plays an important role in the structure and delivery of rap
flows. I demonstrate the ways in which rappers manipulate pitch to create a structural …

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 …

Purpose This paper aims to explore how sounds and attunements to particular organizations
of sound collide across an English language community learning space. The activities in the …

In this paper, I examine a performance that the bluegrass musician Chris Thile gave of
“Alright” by Kendrick Lamar, a song with strong themes of policy brutality that is associated …

This article examines the pitch content of the delivery of anaphoric lyrics in hip-hop.
Anaphoric lyrics consist of lines with a reiterated beginning and a novel ending. Because …