Chappell Roan - 📸 by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
In this episode, we talk about one of our favorite musical topics: vocal timbre and identity! We use examples from the Superbowl - "The Star Spangled Banner" - as well as our own in-progress dissertations - Disney Princesses and Chappell Roan respectively. We also do our best to answer a question in office hours, "what makes someone a queer icon?" and suggest some lesson plans for vocal timbre, available on google docs here!
LINKS/RESOURCES
Mr. Jay's Music Room - rhythm imposter and Among-Us-like games
Nina Sun Eidsheim, The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African
American Music (Duke University Press, 2018).
Catherine Provenzano, “Making Voices: The Gendering of Pitch Correction and The Auto-
Tune Effect in Contemporary Pop Music,” in Journal of Popular Music Studies 31, no. 2
(2019).
"The Superstars of Vocal Timbre"
Nina Sun Eidsheim, The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African
American Music (Duke University Press, 2018).
Kate Heidemann, "A System for Describing Vocal Timbre," MTO 22.1 (2016).
Victoria Malawey, A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice (Oxford University Press, 2020).
MUSIC
Intro/thinking/outro music: "Kiss the Girl" Karoake Version
Brain break music: "Immaterial" by SOPHIE (2017).
More timbre examples: "When Will My Life Begin," sung by Mandy Moore for Tangled (2010).
K&K'S PLAYLISTS: WHAT ARE WE LISTENING TO? 🎧
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