Ohriner, Mitchell – Flow

Description

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

List of acronyms
Introduction
On reproducible research in the humanities
Conventions
About the Companion Website
Part I. Representing Flow
1: Flow in rap music: three sources of confusion and a strategy for clarity
2: A corpus for rap music analysis
3: From rhythm to accent, from sound to rhyme
4: From accent to vocal groove
5: Features of flow in the genre and the artist
Part II. Three Flows
6: Flow, metric complexity, and text in Eminem
7: Flow, groove, and beat in Black Thought
8: Flow and free rhythm in Talib Kweli
Glossary
Works cited
Index