This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship
Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected
open access locations. 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 why songs from the world's oral traditions
have provided the linchpin for the natural voice movement,
revealing how the musical traditions of other cultures not only
provide a colourful repertory but also inform the ideological,
methodological and ethical principles on which the movement itself
is founded. A Different Voice, A Different Song draws on long-term
ethnographic research, including participant-observation at choir
rehearsals, performances, workshops and camps, as well as
interviews with voice teachers, choir and workshop leaders, camp
and festival organisers, and general participants. Bithell shows
how amateur singers who are not musically literate can become
competent participants in a vibrant musical community and, in the
process, find their voice metaphorically as well as literally. She
then follows some of these singers as they journey to distant
locations to learn new songs in their natural habitat. She
theorises these trends in terms of the politics of participation,
the transformative potential of performance, building social
capital, the global village, and reclaiming the arts of celebration
and conviviality. The stories that emerge reveal a nuanced web of
intersections between the local and global, one which demands a
revision of the dominant discourses of authenticity, cultural
appropriation and agency in the post-colonial world, and ultimately
points towards a more progressive politics of difference. A
Different Voice, a Different Song will be an essential text for
practitioners involved in the natural voice movement and other
vocal methodologies and choral worlds. As a significant study in
the fields of ethnomusicology, music education and community music,
the book will also be of interest to scholars studying the
democratisation of the voice, the dynamics of participation, world
musics in performance, the transformative power of harmony singing,
and the potential of music-making for sustaining community and
aiding intercultural understanding.
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