Feb 25

Carleton Linguistics Colloquium with Morgan Sleeper

Thu, February 25, 2021 • 12:25pm - 1:25pm (1h) • Zoom Meeting

The role of language in musical genre is of interest to both linguistics and ethnomusicology, and while the contribution of sung language here has attracted particular attention, the impact of visual language — increasingly important in an age of internet-mediated musics — remains less studied. This talk explores this phenomenon in the context of the internet-mediated genre of Vaporwave, in which visual language interacts with multilingual soundscapes and musical production to construct the listener experience through ‘musicolinguistic landscapes’: multimodal bundles of music and sung, spoken, and visual language. The case of Vaporwave demonstrates how language can shape musical genre across multiple concurrent modalities, as well as how the concept of linguistic landscapes can be extended to a musicolinguistic framework.

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Event Contact: Lisa Falconer

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Carleton Linguistics Colloquium with Morgan Sleeper
  • Intended For: Students, Faculty, Staff

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