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Barbershop Quartet

Gage Averill

Gage Averill

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...A barbershop quartet is an a cappella vocal group comprising tenor, lead, baritone and bass voices, which performs in a style featuring a flexible tempo, a preponderance of dominant seventh chords, ringing harmonics, characteristic...

Male Voice Choirs

Christopher Wiltshire

Christopher Wiltshire

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Male voice choirs are amateur male-only clubs for part-singing, formally organized with rules and a constitution, self-financed and led by a conductor who may or may not be an employee of the group. Male choirs have a wider...

Karaoke

Hiroshi Ogawa

Hiroshi Ogawa

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Megan Jerome

Megan Jerome

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Karaoke is a performance technique using a piece of equipment that enables a person to sing along to a prerecorded accompaniment. The word ‘karaoke’ is a combination of two Japanese words: kara, meaning ‘empty’ or ‘vacant,’ and oke...

Sean-nós

Abigail Gilmore

Abigail Gilmore

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Sean-nós, meaning ‘old style,’ is a style of singing that belongs to the Irish tradition. It is a solo art – the voice is unaccompanied by an instrument, and any accompaniment by other singers is in unison, as Irish traditional music...

Yodeling

Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Yodeling is a singing style that alternates in a controlled way between two distinct registers of the voice. Yodeling has been used in many cultures both for music and for signaling, but its presence in popular music derives from folkloric...

R&B and Rock ‘n’ Roll Vocal Groups

Robert D. Ferlingere

Robert D. Ferlingere

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Rhythm and blues (R&B) vocal groups flourished in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. The groups, male or female, usually consisted of four voices (lead tenor, tenor, baritone and bass in the case of male groups), although...

Singing (Revised 2018)

Richard Middleton

Richard Middleton

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Singing is a particular form of human utterance that may be defined as a subset of the larger category of vocalization. Within this category, it is often distinguished from speech and para-linguistic types of utterance (howling, whimpering,...

Religious Vocal Groups and Choirs

Tony Cummings

Tony Cummings

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Introduction Ensembles performing popular religious music may be divided into three broad categories: small groups, choirs and congregations. In terms of commercial popular music, the first of these has made the most significant...

Conclusion: Late Thoughts

Richard Elliott

Richard Elliott is Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Fado and the Place of Longing (2010). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Late Voice : Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...During the writing of this book, in October 2013, I attended a relatively small and intimate concert by the American singer and songwriter Judy Collins. The show was run as a kind of autobiography in story and song, with Collins introducing...

Declamation

John Potter

John Potter

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...In general, ‘declamation’ refers to the way in which words may be delivered in an overtly dramatic or impassioned manner to impart emotional effects greater than those customarily obtained through the patterns of ordinary speech...