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Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing: AIRS

Singing, like speaking, is a natural human expressive ability. Yet, in comparison to speaking, less scholarly inquiry has been directed to it. Linked to social, cultural, and biological development, singing draws on many disciplines and submits to many forms of analysis and specific explorations. Recognizing a need for a comprehensive framework for such investigations, an international collaboration of over 70 scholars in the humanities and social sciences is motivated to Advance Interdisciplinary Research in Singing, its origins and implications. Together, the AIRS collaborators are integrating new multidisciplinary knowledge about singing from the perspectives of psychology, music, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and education, assisted by computer science and audio engineering.