“Key to the highway”: blues records and the great migration by Louis Mazzari

“…The paper will look at examples of blues singers whose records dealt specifically with the Great Migration and consider their influence on listeners.…”
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Identifying Melodic Motifs and Stable Notes from Gestural Information in Indian Vocal Performances by Shreyas Nadkarni, Preeti Rao, Martin Clayton

“…Our findings reveal consistent gestural patterns across singers, with potential applications in gesture-based music analysis.…”
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Evidence that flocking behavior is rewarded by singing, flock mates, and mu opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens. by Alyse N Maksimoski, Taviah A Levenson, Changjiu Zhao, Lauren V Riters

“…European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, develop strong conditioned place preferences for places associated with the production of song in flocks outside the breeding season (gregarious song) and singers are motivated to rejoin the flock following removal. …”
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Maximizing phonation: impact of inspiratory muscle strengthening on vocal durations and pitch range by Coşkun Yilmaz, Özgür Bostanci, Özgür Eken, Rania Alkahtani, Monira I. Aldhahi

“…Abstract Background This study investigated the acute effects of inspiratory muscle warm-up (IWU) on vocal performance in singers. Proper vocal and respiratory warm-up can enhance vocal range, quality, and endurance. …”
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»Von einem Mann gesungen ist sie so etwas vollkommen anderes«. Schuberts Winterreise in der Deutung von Sängerinnen by Thomas Seedorf, Marc Bangert

“…Sung by male singers, the singing voice in Winterreise is predominantly positioned in a space below the upper voice of the piano part. …”
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Cantadoras e repentistas do século XIX: a construção de um território feminino by Francisca Pereira dos Santos

“…On the contrary, we verify that women singers and improvisators always sung and took active part in this field. …”
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GIUSEPPE VERDI IN VICTORIAN LONDON by Massimo ZICARI

“…A review of such periodicals as The Times, The Musical Times, The Athenaeum has drawn attention to two particular aspects of relevance; Verdi’s first operas impinged upon the model represented by Rossini’s light-spirited melodiousness and provoked a sense of general bewilderment; even when opera-goers began to show clear signs of appreciation and to crowd the theatres where Verdi’s operas were performed, critics continued to object to their value and to ascribe their success to the singers’ new vocal and dramatic skills. …”
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La chanson française, un art de métèques ? by Yves Borowice

“…All the actors of the professional environment — not only the singers — are taken into account. The extreme diversity of courses and routes is approached, as well as the conceptual and terminological questions which result from it. …”
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Le cas du metal symphonique, entre dégénérescence d’un art de l’extrême et exaltation du culte de la puissance by Jason Julliot

“…After sketching a definition of symphonic metal, this article considers the sound radicality issues in the heavy metal : by reversing the balance in favour of classical instruments and by integrating female singers (potentially lyrical), symphonic metal appears to be a non-violent genre, incompatible with what is the essence of heavy metal music. …”
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Comme une bitch ? Exploration des variations d’usage et de sens entre « bitch » et « chienne » en tant qu’insultes sexistes by Aure Espilondo

“…This possibility is assessed through a case study on the usage of “chienne” and “bitch” by three French female singers and rappers: Aya Nakamura, Tracy de Sá, and Liza Monet. …”
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The Sexed or Unsexed Voice on the Lyrical Stage in 18th-c. London by Pierre Dubois

“…Roger Freitas argues that in order to understand the predilection for castrato voices one need to take the erotic bodily dimension of the singers into account. The fascination exerted by this type of voices was closely linked to a contemporary conception of sexuality. …”
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Multiselfing in Music Education by Radio Cremata

“…This article categorizes them as the following: singers, instrumentalists, loopers, live performers, and hybrids. …”
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CONSTANŢA CRISTESCU: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VALORIFICATION OF THE MUSICAL TRADITION OF BANAT AND TRANSYLVANIA, MUSICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE, BUCHAREST, 2011 by Gabriela COCA

“…The other two studies of the first chapter present, using two novel manuscripts, two important personalities of the church teachers and singers of Arad from the end of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century, Valeriu Magdu and Atanasie Lipovan. …”
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Representing Environmental Emergency as Social Emergency: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 in Blues Songs from Louisiana and Mississippi by Stéphanie DENÈVE

“…Because most of them had no access to publishing, researchers have to turn to their songs, particularly blues songs, to answer these questions.The present article argues that the fate of African Americans in the lower Mississippi basin was inseparable from that of the natural environment and that blues singers represented this environment as an active presence in their lives and saw it as a reservoir of metaphors and signifiers of their condition. …”
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O KOM, O KOM, IMMANUEL – VENI, VENI EMMANUEL:

“…It shows that the hymn connects the current singers with believers in the past and is directed towards the future. …”
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USAGE OF COMPUTERISED MEANS IN VOCAL ASSESSMENT by Ana RUSU

“…This approach fully validates recent research in the field, proving that vocal training has a significant effect on human voice, and close follow-up of the subsequent development brings numerous benefits for both young singers and teachers. A relevant advantage of ICT use is represented by the precision in following-up of the vocal development process, creating also the possibility of organizing custom diagrams regarding the progress of vocal parameters. …”
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Tower d’Alun Hoddinott, ou la tentative de créer un opéra populaire by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Added to this, we should bear in mind that both the efficiency of the libretto and the traditional symbolical use of the singers’ tessituras contribute to make of Tower an opera which respects the main features of the genre. …”
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Guido d’Arezzo e il dirozzamento degli «stupidi cantori» by Cesarino Ruini

“…This last development was a response to a pedagogical and didactic concern: the monk of Pomposa wanted to refine the art of the «stupidi cantori» (stupid singers), relieving them of the arduous task of memorising the Gregorian repertoire, which distracted them from worship and from the study of sacred and secular literature. …”
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Cover it up! Visual euphemisation strategies for transforming non-religious songs into Islamic songs in music videos by Ikke Dewi Pratama, SF Luthfie Arguby Purnomo, Arina Rohmatika, Nestiani Hutami

“…The results of the study revealed that four visual elements were euphemized in these cover songs: the properties, costumes, locations, and interactions among the singers or models. Delving deeper into this, the researchers proposed four visual euphemization strategies, including peripheralization (euphemization of the properties), vestimentarization (euphemization of the costumes), locationalization (euphemization of the locations), and interactionalization (euphemization of the interactions). …”
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Does Frankie Go to Hollywood? From American influence to articulatory phonetics: the singing pronunciation of 1980s pop artists by Coline Caillol, Emmanuel Ferragne

“…Despite some variation, most singers realize a majority of their /t/ as a flap in sung productions, something that is not seen in their spoken productions. …”
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