Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Musicking Fans Location: Regency Session Chair: J. Daniel Jenkins, University of South Carolina | |
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Analyzing Fan Authorship in Vocaloid Music CUNY Graduate Center In the past two decades, the Japanese popular music scene observed the meteoric proliferation of Vocaloid, a vocal synthesis database and software accompanied by an anime image, used by originally amateur musicians. In this paper, I focus on the emblematic Vocaloid Hatsune Miku and examine how its community allows for distinct forms of fan-authorship and a multifaceted conception of the musical text. I then propose an analytical model that addresses these concerns by evaluating the entire cyberspace occupied by the Vocaloid song. Through a survey of musicological literature on Vocaloid (Zaborowski 2016, Bell 2016, Lam 2016), I argue that the heterogeneity of Vocaloid ontologies provides Vocaloid fans unique authorial power through participating in nijisousaku. Furthermore, it is important for the analysis of Vocaloid music to consider these fan-authorship processes. Through my case study of the 2021 Hatsune Miku song “kamippoina” (“God-ish”) by Vocaloid producer PinocchioP, I propose three nested forms of fan-authorship: the producer-as-author, the cover-artist-as-author, and the commenter-as-author. Through evaluation of lyrical content, form, timbre, and the unique style of audiovisual danmaku (“barrage subtitling”) commenting on the Japanese video-sharing platform Nico Nico Douga, I illustrate the variety of methods through which members of the Vocaloid community perform authoring activities. | |