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The Barbershop Singer : Inside the Social World of a Musical Hobby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (149 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442680524
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Barbershop SingerDDC classification:
  • 306.4/84
LOC classification:
  • ML3516 .S743 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Social Worlds of American Music -- 2 The Old Songs -- 3 Organized Barbershop -- 4 Becoming a Barbershop Singer -- 5 Why Sing? -- 6 Work in Leisure -- 7 Dissonance in Close Harmony -- 8 Musical Lifestyles -- Appendix: Interview Guide for the Study of Barbershop Singers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Although barbershop singing is clearly a circumscribed social world, understanding how it works expands current knowledge of the variant forms of social participation available to citizens of the modern world.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Social Worlds of American Music -- 2 The Old Songs -- 3 Organized Barbershop -- 4 Becoming a Barbershop Singer -- 5 Why Sing? -- 6 Work in Leisure -- 7 Dissonance in Close Harmony -- 8 Musical Lifestyles -- Appendix: Interview Guide for the Study of Barbershop Singers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Although barbershop singing is clearly a circumscribed social world, understanding how it works expands current knowledge of the variant forms of social participation available to citizens of the modern world.

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