Voice Change in Pop Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-132
Author(s):  
Bridget Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Music Television ◽  
Adolescent Voice ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses the way popular understanding and misunderstanding of voice change is largely perpetuated by mainstream media. Portrayals of voice change distributed via music, television, and movies have contributed to a simulacrum of adolescent voice change, a situated reality not based in fact but accepted in pop culture. The generally embraced perception of voice change is that it is a time of humiliation, anxiety, turmoil, and dread. Voice change is not always pleasant, but students and music educators perceive and approach the experience with such angst and trepidation well before it begins that is rarely given the opportunity to be something positive or exciting. The chapter examines and distills episodes of The Brady Bunch, The Wonder Years, and The Goldbergs, popular television series that spanned a period of more than 40 years, each with an episode focused on the adolescent changing voice.

scholarly journals Media Portrayals of People with Disabilities: An Analysis of Malaysia’s Television Series,“Kerana Cintaku Saerah” (Because of My Love, Saerah)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Aina Razlin Mohammad Roose ◽  
Ross Azura Zahit ◽  
Sheilla Lim Omar Lim
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
The Media ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
The Way

The media has a powerful ability to influence and shape society’s perceptions towards people with disabilities. The portrayal of individuals with disabilities within the media can often have an enormous impact on the way that are perceived by viewers. In Malaysia, people with disabilities are frequently viewed as pitiful, thus medias are more likely to use the element of sympathy in order to garner support from its targeted audience. The focus of this article is on the portrayal of people with disabilities in a popular television series in Malaysia, Kerana Cintaku Saerah (Because of My Love, Saerah) through the analysis of; self-acceptance by the characters with disabilities, family and society’s acceptance, and disability stereotypes in the Malay society. The findings revealed the ideation of how people with disabilities are treated, as well as exhibits disability stereotypes that exist in the Malay society.  

Anatomy and Physiology

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Bridget Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Male Adolescent ◽  
Male Voice ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Adolescent Voice ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Voice

The chapter describes how an understanding of the way the voice operates can empower both female and male adolescent singers as well as the teachers assisting them through the voice change process. It unpacks basic vocal anatomy and physiology, and then overlays physiological transformations that occur in the larynx during female and male voice change. A special section addresses the impact of hormones on the adolescent voice (especially for females) and promotes awareness of premenstrual vocal syndrome. The chapter encourages music educators to frequently discuss and reference vocal anatomy and physiology with adolescent singers in order to demystify vocal challenges and dispel myths and misunderstandings about how the voice and body function.

scholarly journals “But in the Thunder, I Still Hear Thor”: The Character Athelstan as a Narrative Focal Point in the Series Vikings

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Margaret Steenbakker
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Television Series ◽  
World Views ◽  
Negative Picture ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
Medieval Christianity ◽  
Eventual Death ◽  
The Way

This article explores the way the character Athelstan serves as a narrative focal point in the popular television series Vikings. Using this series as its main case study, it addresses the question of the ways in which the character functions as a synthesis between the two opposing world views of Christianity and Norse religion that are present in the series. After establishing that Vikings is a prime example of the trend to romanticize Viking culture in popular culture, I will argue that while the character Athelstan functions as a narrative focal point in which the worlds can be united and are united for a while, his eventual death when he has reverted back to Christianity shows that the series ultimately favors Viking culture and paints a very negative picture of (medieval) Christianity indeed.

Becoming an Anti-Racist Music Educator: Resisting Whiteness in Music Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Juliet Hess
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Educator ◽  
The Way

In this article, I propose some ways that music educators might become anti-racist. I explore the ways that Whiteness manifests in music education and subsequently examine actions we might take to resist this Whiteness. Ultimately, I suggest anti-racism as a way forward for music education. I delineate some of the ways that Whiteness operates in music education, not to discourage educators but rather to encourage us to notice the way Whiteness pervades our field.

Longitudinal research on adolescent voice change in males

1994 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 2646-2654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Hollien ◽  
Rachel Green ◽  
Karen Massey
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Adolescent Voice

Graphical Representations of a Television Series: A Study with Deaf and Hearing Adolescents

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 765-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Cambra ◽  
Aurora Leal ◽  
Núria Silvestre
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Linguistic Information ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The Way

The understanding of a television story can be very different depending on the age of the viewer, their background knowledge, the content of the programme and the way in which they combine the information gathered from linguistic, audio and visual elements. This study explores the different ways of interpreting an audiovisual document considering that, due to a hearing impaired, visual, audio and linguistic information could be perceived very differently to the way it is by hearing people. The study involved the participation of 20 deaf and 20 hearing adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years who, after watching a fragment of a television series, were asked to draw a picture of what had happened in the story. The results show that the graphical representation of the film is similar for both groups in terms of the number of scenes, but there is greater profusion, in the deaf group, of details about the context and characters, and there are differences in their interpretations of some of the sequences in the story.

scholarly journals When the Author Owns the World

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 959-978
Author(s):  
Steven D. Jamar ◽  
Christen B’anca Glenn
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Works

Fan fiction is amateur writing that imaginatively reinvents a work in pop culture while maintaining the identifiable aspects of the preexisting work. Fans of various books, films, and television series write their own versions of the stories and post them online in fan fiction communities. Fan fiction as practiced today is a way for fans to creatively express themselves and become integrated into the story and world they love. The stories range from highly derivative works, where relatively few plot points are changed, to entirely new plot lines using the same world and characters of the original, underlying work. Some provide backstories about existing characters, and some are more in the nature of sequels. Some are quite original works more in the nature of “inspired by” than “derived from.”

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Think ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (30) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Michael Shermer
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Urban Legends

The 1990's über conspiracy-theory television series The X-Files was a decade-defining and culture-reflecting mosh pit of UFOs, extraterrestrials, psychics, demons, monsters, mutants, shape-shifters, serial killers, paranormal phenomena, urban legends turned real, corporate cabals and government cover-ups, and leakages unveiled by a deep-throat-like ‘cigarette smoking man’ character played, ironically, by real-life skeptic William B. Davis. Gillian Anderson's skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully played off David Duchovny's believing character Fox Mulder, whose slogans became posterized pop-culture catch-phrases ‘I want to believe’ and ‘The truth is out there’.

La percepción del product placement de marcas locales en las series de ficción regionales | Product placement perception of local brands in regional fictional series

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Martínez Costa ◽  
Antonio Sanjuán Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Product Placement ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Commercial Products ◽  
The Way

Resumen Este artículo trata sobre la presencia de product placement en las series de ficción en Galicia y sobre la percepción del mismo por parte del consumidor. La hipótesis de partida para la investigación ha sido la de considerar que la cercanía del consumidor los productos comerciales de difusión comercial local o regional puede provocar un mayor reconocimiento de los mismos en el contexto audiovisual, así como un incremento en el índice de recuerdo de la marca. Para este análisis se ha estudiado la presencia de productos comerciales en la primera temporada de Padre Casares, serie televisiva de ficción gallega con difusión autonómica primero y nacional después. El estudio se ha hecho sobre la base de investigaciones previas relativas a la presencia de marcas locales en productos audiovisuales también locales o regionales.Palabras claveProduct placement; publicidad; local; series de ficción.Abstract This article deals with the use of product placement in Galician television series and the way consumers perceive it. The main hypothesis of this research work is the idea that consumers proximity to local or regional commercial products can make it easier for them to recognize these products in the audiovisual context and improve the recalling rate for those brands. For this analysis we have studied the presence of commercial products in the first season of Padre Casares, a Galician fictional television series which had a regional broadcasting at first and a national one later. This study has been made on the basis of previous research works regarding the presence of local brands in local and regional audiovisual products.KeywordsProduct placement; advertising; local; fictional series. Traducido por Esteban Otero Fervenza

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