Intonationprosody

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Intonation/prosody

• A shared organization of language and music

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intonation/prosody in everyday speech

• how to abstract and describe it

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prosody in African drumming
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prosody in song
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prosody in poetry
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prosody in rapping
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Prosodic change Liberation from repetition

• poetry from metric to non-metric poetry
• rap from metric (Old School) to non-metric (New
  School) flow

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Samples from

• X-Clan (Foreplay)
• Tama Walo (Talking Drums)
• Amiri Baraka (The X is black)
• Brand Nubian (Black Star Line)
• Notorious B.I.G. (Juicy)
• Nas Ghetto Prisoners