Vocal stylistics in rock music: dialectics of general and special

Olena Yakhno

doi:10.34064/khnum2-21.18

Abstract

Vocal stylistics in rock music: dialectics of general and special

Highlights

■ The article aimed to identify the specific features of vocal style in rock music
It is noted that the vocal component in rock music is a synthesis of diverse origins, among which the primary and comprehensive is the song beginning, presented in all the diversity of its manifestations
Being assimilated into the forms of professional music‐making, which include rock music and its historically closest source – jazz, the song component in rock music becomes the basis of meaning expression, takes the stage forms of representation, supplemented with various visual and acoustic effects and comes out to the stadium spaces with audience of many thousands

Summary

Introduction

ХXI ■ Аспекти історичного музикознавства soul, funk, etc.), rock music has developed its own system of vocal intonation, which is distinguished by: 1) the priority of word over the music; 2) a special approach to improvisation, the role of which is less significant in rock compositions than in instrumental jazz (the exception is scat improvisation); 3) the tendency towards the revival of the genre of “poems with music”, which is peculiar to the academic song culture of Europe in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Вокальна стилістика в рок-музиці в теоретичному плані вивчена далеко недо‐ статньо.

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