| Description |
1 online resource (xl, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford studies in music theory |
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Oxford studies in music theory.
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| Contents |
Part I. Representing flow. Flow in rap music : sources of confusion and a strategy for clarity ; A corpus for rap music analysis ; From rhythm to accent, from sound to rhyme ; From accent for vocal groove ; Features of flow in the genre and the artist -- Part II. Three flows. Flow, metric complexity, and text in Eminem ; Flow, groove, and beat in Black Thought ; Flow and free rhythm in Talib Kweli -- Appendices. Artists in the genre-wide corpus ; Annotating non-quantized flow |
| Summary |
Flow theorizes the rhythm of the rapping voice at the intersection of music, speech, and poetry. Author Mitchell Ohriner addresses pressing questions in theories of musical rhythm and meter through a combination of computational music analysis and humanistic close reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 2, 2020) |
| Subject |
Rap (Music) -- Analysis, appreciation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190670429 |
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0190670428 |
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9780190670443 |
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0190670444 |
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