Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music

Cover
Series
Seeing Voices
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Note on the Cover Art
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
Introduction: Music Beyond Hearing
	I.1 Music as Movement
	I.2 Sign Language Music and Deaf Culture
	I.3 Chapter Summaries
	I.4 The Resilience of Music
Part I. Contexts
	1. Music and Deafness in America, 1820–​1965
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 Music and Manualism
		1.3 The Oralist Method, Music, and Technology
		1.4 Music and Deaf Education after 1900
		1.5 Conclusion
	2. Deaf Culture’s Musical Presents
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Ten Signing Musicians: An Introduction
		2.3 Topics in Sign Language Music
		2.4 Conclusion
Part II. Analysis
	A Note on Notation
	3. The Signing Singing Voice
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 What’s in a Voice?
		3.3 Oppressive Voicings
		3.4 The Singing Signing Voice
		3.5 Conclusion
	4. Rhythm and Meter
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Entrainment, Pulse, and Rhythm in Sign Language Music
		4.3 Visual Meter
		4.4 Phrase Rhythm in Musical Signing
		4.5 Conclusion
	5. Melodic Techniques
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Melody and Sign Language
		5.3 Melody in Signed Performances of “The Star-​Spangled Banner”
		5.4 Case Study: Rosa Lee Timm, “Blown Away”
		5.5 Signed Polyphony
		5.6 Conclusion
	6. Meaning and Form
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Sign Language Music, Words, and Meaning
		6.3 The Form of Sign Language Music
		6.4 Musical Meaning in Two Original Signed Songs
		6.5 Conclusion
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index