Vocality

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'''Vocality''' or '''special vocal effects''' are vocal or vocally inspired devices including guttural effects, interpolated vocality, falsetto, blue notes, Afro-melismas, lyric improvisation, and vocal rhythmization. All of the listed devices are attributes of African vocality and are used to emotionalize vocal and instrumental performances in African American vernacular music.<ref name="Stewart">(Stewart 1998, p.5-8)</ref>

Guttural effects include screams, shouts, moans, and groans. Shouts may be intoned or nonintoned (definite in pitch/sung or indefinite in pitch/spoken). Interpolated vocality is the addition of new vocal sounds or texts (interpolated verbalism) to a song while lyric variation is derived from or embellishes existing lyrics.<ref name="Stewart"/>

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==Sources== *Stewart, Earl L. (1998). ''African American Music: An Introduction''. {{ISBN|0-02-860294-3}}.

Category:Vocal music

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