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In recent decades, world music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall performances. So You Want to Sing World Music is an essential compendium of these genres and provides technical approaches to singing non-Western styles.
Matthew Hoch gathers a cohort of expert performers and teachers to address singing styles from across the globe, including Tuvan throat singing, Celtic pop and traditional Irish singing, South African choral singing, Brazilian popular music genres, Hindustani classical singing, Native American vocal music, Mexican mariachi, Lithuanian sutartin¿s, Georgian polyphony, Egyptian vocal music, Persian ¿v¿z, and Peking opera. Additional chapters offer resources for soloists and choral directors as well as primers on voice science, vocal health, and audio enhancement technology.
The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing World Music features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.
List of contents
Part I - World Vocal Styles: An Introduction
Chapter 1: Singing the Music of the World, Matthew Hoch
Chapter 2: Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoy
Chapter 3: Vocal Health and the World Music Singer, Wendy LeBorgne
Chapter 4: Using Audio Enhancement Technology, Matthew Edwards
Part II - The Americas
Chapter 5: Native American Vocal Music: Tohono O'odham Songs, Erin E. Bauer
Chapter 6: Mexico's Mariachi Vocal Tradition, Juanita Ulloa
Chapter 7: Popular Music in Brazil: Bossa Nova and Other Genres, Suely Mesquita & Christina Howell
Part III - Europe
Chapter 8: Irish Traditional Song: Style, Practice, Context, Sandra Joyce & Éamonn Costello
Chapter 9: Celtic and Celtic Pop, Elizabeth L. Blades
Chapter 10: Exploring and Performing Lithuanian Sutartin¿s, Sarah J. Bartolome
Chapter 11: Exploring Folk Polyphony through Georgian Songs, Matthew E. Knight
Part IV - The Middle East
Chapter 12: Egyptian Vocal Music, Laura Lohman
Chapter 13: Avaz: The Art of Persian Traditional Singing, Behzad Namazi
Part V - Africa
Chapter 14: Choral Singing in South Africa, Michael Barrett
Chapter 15: Istibili: Singing and Learning South African Folk Song, Sarah-Jane Gibson
Part V - Asia
Chapter 16: An Introduction to Hindustani Vocal Music, Marged Trumper
Chapter 17: Peking Opera, Po-wei Weng
Part VI - Integrating World Music Traditions
Chapter 18: Overtone Singing around the Globe, Rollin Rachele
Chapter 19: World Music in a Choral Setting, Stefanie Cash
Chapter 20: Traditional Arabic Music and the Western Song Recital, Feryal Qudourah
Chapter 21: Vocal Versatility in Bel Canto Style, Ethan Sperry & Mary Goetze
Chapter 22: Musical Rhythms to Learn, Love, and Share, Patricia Shehan Campbell
Chapter 23: Voice Pedagogy: Imagining a Global Future, Matthew Hoch
About the author
Matthew Hoch is associate professor of voice at Auburn University. He is the author of A Dictionary for the Modern Singer, coauthor of Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer, and volume editor of So You Want to Sing Sacred Music and So You Want to Sing CCM. Hoch is the 2016 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Voice Foundation and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS).
Summary
So You Want to Sing World Music explores vocal music from around the globe. World music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall performances. This book serves as a compendium of these genres and offers technical approaches to singing non-Western styles.
