L’Heure du Gospel. Liminalité, identité et religion dans un bar gay by Edward R. Gray, Scott Thumma

“…The « Gospel Hour » is the name taken up in an Atlanta gay bar for a regular session of gospel singing on Sunday, led by a troupe of drag queens with varied religious beliefs, and frequented by men reviving the evangelical Protestantism of their childhood. …”
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Identifying Melodic Motifs and Stable Notes from Gestural Information in Indian Vocal Performances by Shreyas Nadkarni, Preeti Rao, Martin Clayton

“…Manual gesture plays an important role in Indian classical singing, and one of its functions is to support, illustrate or communicate aspects of raga melody. …”
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Film music and construction of tourist imaginaries in Hollywood blockbusters by Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet

“…This paper aims to show how the music composed for these movies contributes to the creation of topoi by promoting exoticism and orientalism, notably through the use of local instruments and musical motifs and through the representation, on screen, of traditional musical and artistic practices (singing, dancing, etc.). We analyze the music that accompanies the hero's travels to emblematic “exotic” places, by studying the tourist imaginaries that they convey, help to reinforce or reconfigure.…”
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Le canard était toujours vivant ! De Troppmann à Weidmann, la fin des complaintes criminelles, 1870-1939 by Jean-François “Maxou” Heintzen

“…So we will follow the art of “singing the crime” over a half-century, from the lament to the “realistic song with a criminal character”, from the crime of Pantin to the latest “serial killer” of the interwar period.…”
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Cançó en llengua minoritzada i revitalització by Eric Fraj

“…Everyone knows that singing is a fun and enjoyable way to learn a language, and an effective way. …”
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Carnaval et patriotisme ou le paradoxe d’une festivité institutionnalisée rejetée by Dorothee Chouitem

“…We analize in this contribution how paradoxically some murgas contributed to defend this ideological conception of the Orientalidad and, by the way, were singing the praises of the patriotism as defined by the armed forces.…”
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“Making Noise” with Comics: An Interview with Argentine Author, Artist, Singer, and Song Writer, Isol by Jennifer Nagtegaal

“…The following interview with Marisol Misenta, known professionally as Isol, discusses a number of ways in which the award-winning author, musician, and occasional comics artist from Argentina brings together music, singing, and narration through images in what she calls “una poción para soñar” (a concoction to dream about). …”
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BREVILOQUENZA COMPONISTICA - ROBERT SCHUMANN AND FRAUENLIEBE UND LEBEN (PART V) by Claudia POP

“…Driven by the success in singing these lieder by Robert Schumann I decided to behave like a true pedagogue and delimit into the entire study (which contains eight parts), three very important things necessary to approach this genre: • to present the poetic content that harmoniously combines the poetry with the precise notes entered; • to develop sensitivity, understanding of the poetic text; • to introduce some voice technical means necessary to approach these lieder. …”
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Performing rustics: pastoral moments and masques in Henry Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) and Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana (1953) by Catherine HOFFMANN

“…The conventions of the masque and the pastoral combine in performances involving singing and dancing by rustics and shepherds. In both works, the pastoral masques or moments are spectacles within the spectacle, offered as gifts to the character(s) on stage. …”
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Guerres et violences à l’abbaye d’Ardenne by Yves Chevrefils Desbiolles

“…The mission of the IMEC is well suited to such a place: the images associated with the word “abbey” revolve around the idea of Peace through study, prayer or choral singing. This idyllic vision of an abbey, however, is in no way a protection against the vicissitudes of history. …”
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»Von einem Mann gesungen ist sie so etwas vollkommen anderes«. Schuberts Winterreise in der Deutung von Sängerinnen by Thomas Seedorf, Marc Bangert

“…Sung by male singers, the singing voice in Winterreise is predominantly positioned in a space below the upper voice of the piano part. …”
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Drunkards and Singers: A Mongolian Battle of Sounds by Laurent Legrain

“…In the first one, I show that the main concern about singing performance at social gatherings is not about revealing the singer’s inner emotional realm but rather about crafting a collective feeling that has the ability to make people temporarily shed their otherness and converge. …”
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Feline Alter Egos in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…When the female self is in the claws of the feline, or compared to the feline, she grapples with multiple snares as her voice is entangled within the contradictory impulses she strives to negotiate. Singing from this nest of snares, the female voice that we hear in these texts showcases the complexity, elusiveness and protean capacity of identification of female writers in the nineteenth-century American literary landscape.…”
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Kláštory klarisiek v Uhorsku – alternatíva spoločenského uplatnenia šľachtických žien v ranom novoveku by Ingrid Kušniráková

“…Some of the nuns devoted their lives to writing books, painting pictures, music and singing. The noble inhabitants of the cloisters remained, never- theless, in contact with their relatives and thus reserved their positions in Hungarian noble society. …”
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La traduction anglaise de Maria Stuarda : paradoxes et contradictions d’une reine catholique et puritaine by Pierre Degott

“…This article is about the only English singing-translation of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, as performed by the ENO in the 1970s and 80s. …”
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Votian Village Feasts in the Context of Russian Orthodoxy by Ergo-Hart Västrik

“…This phenomenon of celebrating collectively certain days of church calendar, which included ritual activities in village chapels or other local sanctuaries, common meals and heavy drinking as well singing and dancing in the course of 3–4 days, was a part of common Russian Orthodox tradition shared by several ethnic groups throughout North-West Russia in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Going Through the Motions: American Bodies in Pharrell Williams’s “24 Hours of Happy” by Claude Chastagner

“…The video promoting Pharrell Williams’s 2013 hit “Happy” is unusual: it runs continuously for 24 hours and displays a succession of around 400 people dancing to the song and often singing its lyrics and displaying with their bodies and facial expressions the spirit of happiness that the song epitomizes. …”
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Optimal vocal therapy for respiratory muscle activation in patients with COPD: effects of loudness, pitch, and vowels by Zhengtong Qiao, Ziwei Kou, Jiazhen Zhang, Daozheng Lv, Dongpan Li, Xuefen Cui, Kai Liu

“…BackgroundVocal therapy, such as singing training, is an increasingly popular pulmonary rehabilitation program that has improved respiratory muscle status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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SONG AND MOTION AS METHOD IN INTRODUCING VOCABULARY IN ENGLISH (NUMBER AND COLOUR) AT EARLY CHILDHOOD by Ratna Purwanti

“…The finding from this study revealed that the song and motion method is very beneficial for children English vocabulary, children can remember the vocabulary about number and colour in English and also children happily singing while moving. This study might be used as an input for a teacher to create learning English in the classroom. …”
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Les chanteuses à la barre by Mélanie Traversier

“…In the 18th century, Naples is considered as the uncontested capital of opera. Singing for opere buffe or opere serie, the female opera singers hired by the Neapolitan public theatres play an important role in promoting the musical prestige of the city. …”
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