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Flow - The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (Hardcover)
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Flow - The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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From its dynamic start at dance parties in the South Bronx in the
late 1970s, hip hop and rap music have exploded into a dominant
style of popular music in the United States and a force for
activism and expression all over the world. So, too, has
scholarship on hip hop and rap music grown. Yet much of this
scholarship, employing methods drawn from sociology and literature,
leaves unaddressed the expressive musical choices made by hip hop
artists. Fundamental among these choices is the rhythm of the
rapping voice, termed "flow." Flow presents unique theoretical and
analytical challenges. It is rhythmic in the same way other music
is rhythmic, but also in the way speech and poetry are rhythmic.
For the first time, Mitchell Ohriner's Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in
Rap Music reconciles approaches to key concepts of rhythm, such as
meter, periodicity, patterning, and accent, treated independently
across other branches of scholarship. Ohriner theorizes flow by
weaving between the methods of computational music analysis and
humanistic close reading. Through the analysis of large collections
of verses and individual tracks, the book addresses theories of
rhythm, meter, and groove in the unique ecology of rap music. In a
series of case studies in the second half, the work of Eminem
clarifies how flow can relate to text, the work of Black Thought of
The Roots clarifies how flow can relate to other instrumental
streams, and the work of Talib Kweli clarifies how flow can relate
to rap's persistent meter. While Ohriner focuses on rap music
throughout the book, the methods he introduces will be useful for
other musical genres that feature the voice freely interacting with
a more rigid metric framework.
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