Falsetto

In the documentary film ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ by David Thorpe, Thorpe explores the speech patterns of gay men to find out if there really is a ‘gay voice’ and how true that stereotype holds. This goes way back to a familiar linguistic stereotype of Western gay men – they sound different from heterosexual men (Cameron and Kulick 2003). Their unique and distinctive way of speaking has been termed ‘the voice’, and phoneticians have come up with lists of its characteristics (Cameron and Kulick 2003). Therefore

Hello, There are quite a few pedagogical reasons why Rachel and I have decided to combine both choirs. Below are just a few. My 8th grade boys were having a hard time singing do to voice changes. I tried to keep the boys up in their falsetto and while this worked for a few boys the others we not able to produce certain notes. When boys voices start to change it can result in them only being able to sing a very limited amount of notes. We worked on high trills, sliding, humming, yawning, held

A dreamy piano sweetly plays out of my headphones as a synth underneath makes you almost feel like the music is like a cloud just floating overtop of you. A few seconds in you can hear a sultry voice coming in her falsetto before singing a run to get back to her normal register. The song is Caretaker by DRAM ft. SZA. SZA’s voice echoes deep into the back as the drums almost like trap drums but in a staccato fashion. This light rhythmic dance of battling between a piano that sounds like a harp to

As a polysemic text, television has the power to inspire a range of interpretations according to the encoding of the producers and the decoding of the televisual consumer. As first described by Stuart Hall in Encoding/Decoding, and then by Horace Newcomb and Paul Hirsch in Television as a Cultural Forum there exist three basic categories of potential readings of a singular text within the broad range of potential interpretations: dominant or preferred, negotiated, and oppositional, each of which

unsteadily to his feet, turned to leave the courtroom and saw, as if for the first time, that there were people witnessing his disgrace. The big man's eyes lowered. He swayed a little until someone steadied him, and then he gasped out in a keening falsetto: "My poor baby!" A group of middle-schoolers filed into the room for a scheduled class trip to the courthouse. The teacher clearly hadn't expected this; within a few minutes, the wide-eyed kids were hustled back out. The trial would last three

In his tales Chaucer describes men as idiots,foolish,and blindly.He says this because that's how men acted during his time like jerks .I would agree with him because what he says in his tales the men sound just as he described them.Also in his tales his shows many times that men don't have respect for the women.It also seems like during this time all men were drinking ,which made them look more like idiots.In the Miller's tale Chaucer describes the carpenter as a jealousy,drinking person. And how

Commemorative speech about Michael Jackson My Favorite idol Special person, one of the greatest contributor to American pop music industry. Influenced billions of people worldwide with his many self-composed songs and dance moves Famously known to have changed his skin colour Won total of 13 Grammy awards (8 in one night during the 1984 Grammy award ceremony which earned him an entry in the Guisness world record ) A controversial figure. But let’s just focus on his achievements and his

On Saturday May 17th The Vault at Vinyl Revival hosted a night of Neo-psychedelia and Paisley Underground mixed with a little Dream Magic Psych. Additionally we had two guest D J’s , Eric Slick from Dr. Dog and Dominic Angelella form DRGN KING. They played songs LP's and 45's in between sets and I had the opportunity to speak with Eric about Dr. Dog and the music business. He is the drummer and arranged the horns on the new album, B-Room. The album is a group project and is the driving force

emotional release. He often played his guitar with an open D-Minor tuning (D-A-D-F-A-D) resulting in the deep sound. Skip James was an exceptional guitarist, and his sound often revolved around his trademark E-minor “cross-note tuning” and an eerie falsetto vocal delivery that could send shivers up ones spine. In Devil Got My Women, James addresses the struggle between the flesh and the spirit, as well as good and evil, contains ones of the most classic lyrics of any blues song. Many blues men refer

I was nine years old and in the backseat of my father’s car when music died. He was flipping through radio stations, aimlessly, when his phone rang. He answered the call and, in doing so, left my perception of music defenseless to the arsenal of crap it was about to be exposed to. The radio was left on some station hosted by a man who, by the sound of his voice, one could only imagine perpetually wore backwards hats. His name was probably Steve-o. At first, I sat transfixed by the odd nature of