Flow : the rhythmic voice in rap music / Mitchell Ohriner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohriner, Mitchell, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in music theory.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in music theory

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--Analysis, appreciation.

Rap (Music).

Musical meter and rhythm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 30, 2019).

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

ISBN:

0-19-067043-6

0-19-067044-4

0-19-067042-8