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A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song
Caroline Bithell
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Description for A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC8; AVGW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
A Different Voice, A Different Song traces the history of a grassroots scene that has until now operated largely beneath the radar, but that has been gently gathering force since the 1970s. At the core of this scene today are the natural voice movement, founded on the premise that everyone can sing , and a growing transnational community of amateur singers participating in multicultural music activity. Author Caroline Bithell reveals the intriguing web of circumstances and motivations that link these two trends, highlighting their potential with respect to current social, political and educational agendas. She investigates how and ... Read more
A Different Voice, A Different Song traces the history of a grassroots scene that has until now operated largely beneath the radar, but that has been gently gathering force since the 1970s. At the core of this scene today are the natural voice movement, founded on the premise that everyone can sing , and a growing transnational community of amateur singers participating in multicultural music activity. Author Caroline Bithell reveals the intriguing web of circumstances and motivations that link these two trends, highlighting their potential with respect to current social, political and educational agendas. She investigates how and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
540g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199354559
SKU
V9780199354559
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99-18
About Caroline Bithell
Caroline Bithell is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her book Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage was published by Scarecrow Press in 2007. Her edited collection The Past in Music appeared as a special issue of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum (2007). Most recently she has co-edited The Oxford Handbook of ... Read more
Reviews for A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song
A Different Voice, A Different Song is valuable for how it reveals a complex set of circumstances and motivations...This is one of the very few publications that deal exclusively with singing in all its complexity and beauty. Scholars of musicology, social studies, and cultural anthropology will find this book a provocative account of singing practice, and an inspiration for further ... Read more