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Powerful Voices : The Musical and Social World of Collegiate a Cappella.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tracking Pop SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028337
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Powerful VoicesDDC classification:
  • 782.5/08837873
LOC classification:
  • ML25
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Collegiate A Cappella's Predecessors, Inception, and Historical Moment -- 1. From Nineteenth-Century Glee Clubs to Barbershop Harmony -- 2. The Whiffenpoofs: The "First" A Cappella Group -- 3. Doo-Wop and Late-Twentieth-Century Vocal Pop -- 4. The A Cappella Explosion -- Part II. Contemporary Collegiate A Cappella: Performance, Technology, and Community -- 5. Musical Components and Their Social Motivations -- 6. In Rehearsal: A Cappella's Social Performance -- 7. In Performance: Gender, Humor, Gesture, and Politics -- 8. Technology in Collegiate A Cappella Performance and Recording -- 9. Listening to Recordings: BOCA and Discourse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Collegiate A Cappella's Predecessors, Inception, and Historical Moment -- 1. From Nineteenth-Century Glee Clubs to Barbershop Harmony -- 2. The Whiffenpoofs: The "First" A Cappella Group -- 3. Doo-Wop and Late-Twentieth-Century Vocal Pop -- 4. The A Cappella Explosion -- Part II. Contemporary Collegiate A Cappella: Performance, Technology, and Community -- 5. Musical Components and Their Social Motivations -- 6. In Rehearsal: A Cappella's Social Performance -- 7. In Performance: Gender, Humor, Gesture, and Politics -- 8. Technology in Collegiate A Cappella Performance and Recording -- 9. Listening to Recordings: BOCA and Discourse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella.

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