Editing Singing (section)

=== American Sign Language: Artistic Song Signing ===
An artistic signer, a signer who translates the lyrics of a song into American Sign Language (ASL), can modify existing signs, create new signs from the three basic parameters of sign language, and manipulate the typical signing space, thus deliberately expressing "rhythm, pitch, phrasing, and timbre."<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Maler |first=Anabel |date=March 2013 |title=Songs for Hands: Analyzing Interactions of Sign Language and Music |url=https://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.13.19.1/mto.13.19.1.maler.php#AUTHORNOTE1 |journal=Music Theory Online |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 |via=Academic Search Premier}}</ref> Moreover, an artistic signer can be a person who is "Deaf, hearing, or hard of hearing" such as Justina Miles, a Deaf performer who used ASL to interpret Rihanna's 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance, and Stephen Torrence, a hearing person who created signed songs on YouTube.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 18, 2023 |title=Justina Miles (Deaf performer) performs Super Bowl LVII 2023 Halftime show by Rihanna in ASL (HD) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHudZm_6TE |url-status=live |access-date=November 17, 2024 |website=YouTube}}</ref>