“Before Fiddler on the Roof , before The Jazz Singer , there was Deborah ” by Lars Fischer

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Josephine Baker and Choe Sung-Hui by Tsuyoshi NAMIGATA

“…At the beginning of this classic-based novel, a famous ‘western’ jazz singer, Josephine Baker, appears half-naked as a holy spirit, wearing a pilot’s helmet and holding feminine medicine for women in her hand. …”
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Koniec Wielkiego Niemowy? Uwagi o „rolach mówionych” w pierwszych latach kina dźwiękowego by Piotr Skrzypczak

“…Dlatego pierwszy „Master’s Voice” – głos śpiewaka music-hallowego – Ala Johnsona w <em>Śpiewaku jazzbandu</em> (<em>The Jazz Singer</em>) w reżyserii Alana Croslanda (1927) zrobił na widzach wrażenie nie ze względu na barwę, <em>timbre</em>, akcent czy intonację, ale z samego tego powodu, że po prostu… objawił się na ekranie. …”
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VOCAL IMPROVISATION – A COGNITIVE AND A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS by Luiza ZAN, Stela DRĂGULIN

“…By taking command of the present, while at the same time bringing forward to the audience an extensive amount of musical knowledge and specific vocal techniques, vocal improvisation is an extensive field of interest for jazz singers and jazz voice educators alike, and its distinct processes are yet to be fully understood and explained. …”
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“The Whole Ensemble”: Gwendolyn Bennett, Josephine Baker, and Interartistic Exchange in Black American Modernism by Suzanne W. Churchill

“…The picture that emerges from Bennett’s art and writing is one of communal practices and interartistic expression, in which Baker joins a host of now-forgotten chorus girls, vaudeville actors, jazz singers, musicians, visual artists, and writers participating in a modern renaissance of Black expressive culture.…”
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VOCAL DEPERSONALIZATION IN SCAT SINGING by Luiza ZAN, Stela DRĂGULIN

“… The purpose of this paper is to question the amount of personal investment in exploring the voice as an impersonal sound, in scat singing. Jazz singers and jazz voice teachers follow vocal practices that aim to control and distort the vocal timbre, to master microtonal intervals, to push and eventually overcome the voice’s limits. …”
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