商品簡介
Imported from the U.S. in the 1960s, barbershop singing has developed into a highly organized musical community of 4,000-plus people involved in some 120 choruses in the UK. In the first scholarly study of the British barbershoppers, Garnett (Birmingham Conservatoire, UK) documents and analyzes the social and musical practices of this specific community of music-makers, and uses that analysis to theorize the relationship between music and self- identity. Coverage includes the social theory of barbershop harmony, barbershop singing and the invention of tradition, the public image of barbershop, gender relations in British barbershop, performance practices, tag-singing, what it means to be a barbershopper, and possible implications for the study of other musics. Musicologist Garnett is an active member in the British barbershop community. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
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.
