Exposition

Making it my own (2023)

Mikael Charlie Bäckman
no media files associated
open exposition

About this exposition

Abstract In the audio paper which forms the center piece of this exposition I have examined the idiolect of country harmonica player Charlie McCoy. In order to gain a multifarious understanding of McCoy’s idiolect I have made transcriptions of his recordings and interviewed McCoy himself and two other prominent harmonica players. With the aim of obtaining a more refined engagement with the performance, I have sought to embody McCoy’s playing by learning to play my transcriptions. The paper shows the prominent features of McCoy’s idiolect and how he created his idiolect while negotiating the affordances of the diatonic harmonica. The paper also shows how I am using transcriptions of his recordings with the intent of transforming my own artistic voice. Keywords: Harmonica, Charlie McCoy, Idiolect, Voice, Affordances, Country music
typeresearch exposition
date20/09/2021
published07/06/2023
last modified07/06/2023
statuspublished
share statusshared with registered RC users
copyrightMikael Bäckman
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1368800/1368801
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1368800
published inResearch Catalogue


Copyrights


Comments are only available for registered users.