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The British Barbershopper - A Study in Socio-Musical Values (Paperback)
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The British Barbershopper - A Study in Socio-Musical Values (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Barbershop singing is a distinctive and under-documented facet of
Britain's musical landscape. Imported from the USA in the 1960s, it
has developed into an active and highly organized musical community
characterized by strong social support structures and a
proselytizing passion for its particular style. This style is
defined, within the community, in largely music-theoretical terms
and is both highly prescriptive and continually contested, but
there is also a host of performance traditions that articulate
barbershop's identity as a distinct and specific genre. Liz Garnett
documents and analyses the social and musical practices of this
specialized community of music-makers, and extends this analysis to
theorize the relationship between music and self-identity. The book
engages with a range of sociological and musicological theoretical
frameworks in order to explore the role of harmony, ritual, sexual
politics, performance styles and 'tag-singing' in barbershop. This
analysis shows how musical style and cultural discourses can be
seen to interact in the formation of identity. Garnett provides the
first in-depth scholarly insight into the British barbershop
community, and contributes to ongoing debates in the semiotics and
the sociology of music.
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