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FOUR PARTS, NO WAITING
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN BARBERSHOP HARMONY |
| By: |
Gage Averill |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£83.00 |
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£83.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195116720 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195116724 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
20 February, 2003 |
| Series: |
American Musicspheres |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows, black recreational singing, vaudeville, early recordings, and in the barbershop revival of the 1930s. In hisexploration of barbershop, Averill uncovers a rich musical tradition - a hybrid of black and white cultural forms, practiced by amateurs, and part of a mythologized vision of small-town American life. |
| Synopsis: |
Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows, black recreational singing, vaudeville, early recordings, and in the barbershop revival of the 1930s. In his exploration of barbershop, Averill uncovers a rich musical tradition-a hybrid of black and white cultural forms, practiced by amateurs, and part of a mythologized vision of small-town American life. This engagingly-written, often funny book critiques the nostalgic myths (especially racial myths) that have surrounded the barbershop revival, but also celebrates the civic-minded, participatory spirit of barbershop harmony. The text is accompanied by an audio CD. |
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9 line illus & 16 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the 2004 Alan P. Merriam Prize of the Society for |
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