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American Barbershop
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Barbershop Chorus
Barbershop Community
Barbershop Harmony
Barbershop Identities
Barbershop Music
Barbershop Performance
Barbershop Quartet
Barbershop Singers
Barbershop Singing
Barbershop Style
British Barbershopper
British vocal harmony research
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Church Sect Theory
Contest System
Educational Material
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gender in music communities
harmony analysis
Harmony College
Harry Wells
Judging System
Mixed Quartets
music sociology
musical identity
performance studies
Personal Identity Narrative
ritual in music
style
sweet
Sweet Adelines
UK Share
UK's Corpus
UK’s Corpus
Wider Issues
Wider Musical Community
Product details
- ISBN 9780754635598
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Dr Liz Garnett is a musicologist and choral clinician whose research and praxis both explore the theme of music and its social meanings. She has held academic posts at Colchester Institute and Birmingham Conservatoire, and is in demand internationally as a performance coach and arranger. Her first book, The British Barbershopper: A Study in Socio-Musical Values, is also published by Ashgate.
