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Voice and Speech Review, 2023

Early in 2023, Flloyd began an occasional series of podcast interviews under the heading “Are You Old Yet?” in which she engages in conversation with friends and colleagues, all of whom are over 70 and still as creatively active as they ever were. The discussions center around their creative lives and attitudes to aging and the word “old”. The following is a revised and extended version of the interview with Frankie Armstrong, originally broadcast on July 7 2023.

Beanblossom to Bannerman: A Festschrift for Neil V. Rosenberg, ed. Martin Lovelace et al., 2005

A dominant pattern in bluegrass and country music song lyrics enacts a male version of the Romantic quest myth, in which the hero, the good-old-boy, a descendant of the ante-bellum Southern Cavalier, seeks to navigate life's journey. Starting out in a homeplace he is impatient to leave, he travels along a road whose demeaning labor, worldly temptations and fleeting pleasures, impinge on his liberty and threaten his honor. Unable to establish or return to a homeplace that now has become an object of nostalgia, he feels guilt and shame while seeking solace where he can find it, knowing that a heavenly home is beyond reach. Note: the essay contains a misprint: not knowing the word "trotline," the Canadian editor mistakenly changed my word to "troutline" without consulting me.

Popular Music and Society, 2022

This essay examines thirteen songs written by award-winning singer-songwriter John Prine. Though Prine is perhaps best known for his humorous material, it is his more serious compositions that will likely stand the test of time. Many of these songs display variations on the theme of transition, especially the difficult human journey from innocence to experience.

The Power of Songs: an Evaluation of Plymouth Music Zone's Keep Singing Keepsakes project., 2014

This report analyses and evaluates the Keep Singing Keepsakes project run by award winning community music charity Plymouth Music Zone, which is funded by a number of organisations including the Arts Council. The project takes singing sessions to elderly people living in care homes and assisted accomodation and aims to address loneliness and improve social networks. The research consists of case studies using observations, interviews and a reflective diary. It includes a focus on favourite songs and their meanings and uses posthuman theory to discuss the power of songs as things that make things happen. It also focuses on singing as a form of informal mutual learning.

2021

Lullabies & Confessions is an exquisite book of poetry about parenting and being parented. This volume includes over 100 poems by 45 different poets. The contributors include award winning-poets, therapists and counselors, and parents. Lullabies & Confessions is entertaining and growth-facilitating. The 11th book in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series, this book is designed to help readers experience personal growth and deepen self-awareness on their own experience of parenting and being parented. Also included are several exercises to help readers engage more deeply with the poems and begin writing their own poems about the parenting experience.

America’s Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 (Pete Seeger) , 2006

Lyrics, Voices and the Stories They Tell, 2024

Situated within the field of Popular Musicology, this thesis takes a discursive approach to the relationship between lyrics and representations of the voice. Drawing on personal experience with lyrics and voices as a singer, performing songwriter, and researcher, it takes on several discourses of academic thinking, such as musicology, literary studies, and voice and performance studies. Interdisciplinary lines are drawn between these related fields to explore their discursive interactions. The thesis advances an approach suggesting that people's lifelong relationship with voice contributes to the development of a Voice Recognition, Use, and Listening Competence. This competence is argued to be intertwined with individuals' lifelong relationship with voice and performance traditions within popular music genres, enabling them to identify coded meanings in the voice. Furthermore, this thesis investigates whether our knowledge and experience with voice and its everyday function as a means of expression and communication is transferred to how we write, perform and understand lyrics. It thus aims to highlight how somatic and semantic meaning contribute to different understandings of lyrical meaning. To address these and related issues, the thesis introduces an analytical framework labelled “Four Approaches to Lyrics and Voices”. This framework is designed to encompass experiences as a listener, reader, singer/performer and lyricist/songmaker, offering a broad perspective on how lyrical meaning is constructed and understood. These four approaches are applied to explore how the relationship between lyrics and the performativity and coded meanings of the voice contribute to our understandings of lyrical meaning. The thesis studies a selection of songs, lyrics, songmakers and performers, avoiding focus on specific genres or artists to provide a broader perspective. The examples also underscore the universal nature of coded meanings in the voice and the versatility of “Four Approaches to Lyrics and Voices” as an analytical framework applicable to lyrics across various genres and artists. In this way, the thesis makes a case for how lyrical meaning emerges and lives on in its interactions with performers and listeners, implying that our understanding of lyrics is never fixed. Moreover, it addresses how experiences of external and internal listening and auto-listening inform experiences and understandings of lyrical meaning. Additionally, the thesis highlights the relationship between lived experiences, personal narratives and song narratives and how they are interwoven in the tapestry of our lives. The primary objective of this PhD project is to start a new conversation within Popular Musicology about lyrics, voices and the stories they tell.

Theatre Research in Canada, 2020

This conversation explores the development and premiere production of Songs My Mother Never Sung Me, an American Sign Language (ASL)/English chamber opera written and composed by Dave Clarke and produced by Concrete Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Staging an opera for Deaf and hearing family audiences required building meaningful connections to Edmonton’s Deaf community, both through engaging a Deaf cultural consultant and through a partnership with SOUND OFF , Canada’s Deaf theatre festival. Prioritizing ASL, Deaf audiences, and casting a Deaf actor in the role of Mom were significant.

Brill | Fink eBooks, 2024

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