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So you want to sing a cappella : a guide for performers
From amateur collegiate a cappella groups to professional ensembles like Straight No Chaser and Pentatonix, contemporary a cappella has exploded onto the world pop music scene. In So You Want to Sing A Cappella, Deke Sharon combines historical context and a comprehensive look at the a cappella community with a detailed discussion of vocal techniques, rehearsal practices, and live audio support needed to sing great a cappella. Additional contributed chapters examine singing and voice science, vocal health, vocal percussion, and audio technology. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and each book features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and addtional resources. -- from back cover.
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Powerful Voices
Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal pop groups, doo-wop groups, and contemporary a cappella manifestations in pop music, collegiate a cappella is an extension of a very old tradition of close harmony singing---one that includes but also goes beyond the founding of the Yale Whiffenpoofs. Yet despite this important history, collegiate a cappella has until now never been the subject of scholarly examination.InPowerful Voices: The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella, Joshua S. Duchan offers the first thorough accounting of the music's history and reveals how the critical issues of sociability, gender, performance, and technology affect its music and experience. Just as importantly, Duchan provides a vital contribution to music scholarship more broadly, in several important ways: by expanding the small body of literature on choruses and amateur music; by addressing musical and social processes in a field where the vast majority of scholarship focuses on individuals and their products; and by highlighting a musical context long neglected by musicologists---the college campus. Ultimately,Powerful Voicesis a window on a world of amateur music that has begun to expand its reach internationally, carrying this uniquely American musical form to new global audiences, while playing an important role in the social, cultural, and musical education of countless singers over the last century.
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BTS : the ultimate fan book
\"BTS: the ultimate fan book\" is a spectacular celebration of the best and brightest K-Pop group from South Korea. Inside you'll explore the songs, the moves and the fashions that have led the Bangtan Boys to worldwide success. Beautifully illustrated with photographs that highlight the band's kaleidoscope of personalities and passions, this is a must-read for any fan who just can't get enough BTS!\"-- Provided by publisher
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Yawulyu
Warlpiri people commemorate and maintain their relationship with their ancestors and the natural order of the cosmos by re-enacting the events of the Jukurrpa (the Dreaming).They do this, in part, by painting up while singing pertinent songs, as well as performing dances and ritual actions sanctioned by the Jukurrpa.
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When Colleges Sang
When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich
culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American
republic to the present. Before fraternity songs, alma maters,
and the
rahs of college fight songs became commonplace, students
sang. Students in the earliest American colleges created their
own literary melodies that they shared with their classmates. As
J. Lloyd Winstead documents in
When Colleges Sang , college singing expanded in
conjunction with the growth of the nation and the American higher
education system. While it was often simply an entertaining
pastime, singing had other subtle and not-so-subtle effects.
Singing indoctrinated students into the life of formal and
informal student organizations as well as encouraged them to
conform to college rituals and celebrations. University faculty
used songs to reinforce the religious practices and ceremonial
observances that their universities supported. Students used
singing for more social purposes: students sang to praise their
peer’s achievements (and underachievements), mock the
faculty, and provide humor. In extreme circumstances, they sang
to intimidate classmates and faculty, and to defy college
authorities. Singing was, and is, an intrinsic part of campus
culture.
When Colleges Sang explores the dynamics that inspired
collegiate singing and the development of singing traditions from
the earliest days of the American college. Winstead explores this
tradition’s tenuous beginnings in the Puritan era and
follows its progress into the present. Using historical documents
provided by various universities,
When Colleges Sang follows the unique applications and
influences of song that persisted in various forms. This original
and significant contribution to the literature of higher
education sheds light on how college singing traditions have
evolved through the generations and have continued to remain
culturally relevant even today.
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Sing like nobody's listening
Wylie Tennyson and Jada Emmett have been best friends forever. They have done everything together for so long that when Jada decides to try out for their middle school s spring musical production, it was only natural for Wylie to audition as well.
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Leaders of the pack
Musician and music historian Sean MacLeod surveys the hundreds of girl groups that appeared not only in the United States but also in Great Britain during the early 1960s. This study corrects the neglect of their critical contribution of popular music history by exploring the social and political climate from which the girl groups emerged and their effect, in turn, on local and national music and culture. MacLeod organizes his argument around seven leading girl groups: The Shirelles, The Crystals, The Ronettes, The Marvelettes, The Vandellas, the Supremes and The Shangri-Las. These seven \"sister\" groups serve as the basis for a broader look at the many girl groups of the period, offering a roadmap through the work of the many stakeholder--the singers, songwriters, producers, and record labels--that the girl group phenomenon made possible. MacLeod also reviews the significant influence girl groups had on the many male bands of the 1960s, as well as their influence on the post-'60s movements, from punk to new wave, ultimately serving as the template for the girl groups and all-girl bands that emerged in the 1980s. Finally, The Leaders of the Pack brings us to the present as MacLeod compares the original girl groups with female performers of today, drawing lines of connection and contrast between them.
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The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow
Early in the morning on June 1, 1953, five African American men boarded a van to make the 200mile trip from Nashville to Memphis for a daylong recording session at the legendary Sun Studios, to be overseen by Sun founder Sam Phillips. One of the two tracks cut that day, “Just Walkin’ in the Rain,” would go on to become a regional R&B hit, Sun Records’ biggest record of the preElvis era. It would, however, be the group’s only hit. They were the Prisonaires, a vocal quintet who had honed their skills while inmates at the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. In this book, John Dougan tells the story of the Prisonaires, their hit single, and the afterlife of this one remarkable song. The group and the song itself represent a compelling concept: imprisoned men using music as a means of cultural and personal survival. The song was rerecorded by white singer Johnnie Ray, who made it a huge hit in 1956. Over the years, other singers and groups would move the song further away from its origins, recasting the deep emotions that came from creating music in a hostile, controlled environment. The story of the Prisonaires, for all of its triumphs, reflects the disappointment of men caught in a paradoxical search for personal independence while fully cognizant of a future consigned to prison. Their brief career and the unusual circumstances under which it flourished sheds light on the harsh realities of race relations in the pre–Civil Rights South. The book also provides a portrait of Nashville just as it was gaining traction as a nationally recognized music center.
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