1st Edition
Creak Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation
Foreword: My days and nights with creaky voice
Diana Sidtis
PART I: Frames
Introduction: What is the matter with pulse phonation?
Francesco Venturi
1. From deviance to the birth of a register
Nassima B. Abdelli-Beruh
2. Vocal fry, creaky voice, and singing voice pedagogy: Singing teacher attitudes and usage
John Nix and Whitney Chappell
3. Voice creakiness in singing
Alexsandro R. Meireles
4. Acoustic, physiological, and paralinguistic analyses of creaky voice in spontaneous dialogue speech
Carlos T. Ishi
5. Generation, acoustic properties, and behavioral relevance of pulse tone vocalizations in bird vocal repertoires
Franz Goller
PART II: Narratives
6. A case study of "vocal fry" in Suffolk: Intersections and contradictions in the sociolinguistic salience and dialectological prevalence of pulse phonation
Madeleine Masters and Christopher Strelluf
7. Creak and embodying gender: A case study of media interviews with an actor before and after coming out as transgender
Robert James Hellyer
8. "It’s chiefly your eyes I think, and that throb you get in your voice": The place of creaky voice in the soundscape of attractive female voices in twentieth and twenty-first century American cinematography
Míša Hejná and Mark Eaton
9. The role of creaky voice in gender perception in Scottish English
Joe Pearce
10. Gilmore Girls, cowboys, bon viveurs and lacanian psychoanalysis: Vocal fry's significance as symptom of object a (capitalist semioblitz, masculine menace, and ineradicable excess)
Tristam Vivian Adams
PART III: Experiences
11. Doing things with creak
Francesco Venturi
12. From extreme to everyday: Vocal fry in contemporary theory and practice of music
Bojana Radovanovićì
13. Transmasculine creaks and cracks
Poe M. Allphin
14. Mothers and creak
Andrew Cheng, Elise McClay, and H. Henny Yeung
15. A case study in creak and creaky voice: The pedagogical impediments and uses
Lisa Quoresimo
16. Dreamvoice: Composing from creaks breaking through the unconscious
Ilona Krawczyk
17. What can the pulse register do?
Francesco Venturi, Katherine Meizel, Margaret Pikes, Francesca M. Dovetto, Nicol Bana, Leah Kardos, Gino Sitson, Dario Buccino, Roberto Panzanelli, Pedro Oliveira and Edoardo Mozzanega.
18. The other side of the human voice
Francesco Venturi and Joan La Barbara
Biography
Francesco Venturi is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Voice (CRIV) in Bologna, Italy. A musician-researcher and PhD candidate at Kingston University London, he has lectured in voice theories at the Milan Conservatory and specializes in voice education and live arts curation. As a spokesperson for the emerging field of Voice Studies, his work appears in academic journals and magazines. He presents his research across European universities and leads voice-centered seminars and workshops internationally and intersectionally, collaborating with cultural, educational, and medical institutions. As a composer and voice artist, he has received major commissions, scored award-winning productions, and performed solo and in ensembles across Europe.
