What is it about?
What makes music "childlike"? This article examines how a variety of pop, rock, and hip-hop artists make special use of language--and of their very own voice--in order to produce a phenomenon of "becoming-child". The article demonstrates how this childlikeness contributes to our experience and enjoyment of popular music.
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Why is it important?
Childlikeness in pop-rock music often goes unnoticed. The article is one of the first systematic attempts to argue for its importance.
Perspectives
The article is an excerpt from my PhD dissertation, which deals with many other aspects of childlikeness in pop-rock and makes a claim for the importance of identifying the central role that childlikeness plays in contemporary popular music. This should prove useful for fans, musicians and scholars alike.
Dr. Nadav Appel
Universitat Bar-Ilan
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This page is a summary of: ‘Ga, ga, ooh-la-la’: the childlike use of language in pop-rock music, Popular Music, January 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0261143013000548.
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