The Barbershop Singer : Inside the Social World of a Musical Hobby.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442680524
- 306.4/84
- ML3516 .S743 1996
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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