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So You Want to Sing World Music

A Guide for Performers

Edited by Matthew Hoch

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 sutartinės, Georgian polyphony, Egyptian vocal music, Persian āvāz, 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.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 568 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-5381-1684-5 • Hardback • October 2019 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

978-1-5381-1227-4 • Paperback • October 2019 • $58.00 • (£45.00)

978-1-5381-1228-1 • eBook • October 2019 • $55.00 • (£42.00)

Series: So You Want to Sing

Subjects: Music / Instruction & Study / Voice

So You Want to Sing World Music

A Guide for Performers

Hardback

Paperback

eBook

Summary

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 sutartinės, Georgian polyphony, Egyptian vocal music, Persian āvāz, 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.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 568 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-5381-1684-5 • Hardback • October 2019 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

978-1-5381-1227-4 • Paperback • October 2019 • $58.00 • (£45.00)

978-1-5381-1228-1 • eBook • October 2019 • $55.00 • (£42.00)

Series: So You Want to Sing

Subjects: Music / Instruction & Study / Voice

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.

Table 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 Sutartinės, 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: Āvāz: 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

Reviews

So You Want to Sing World Music provides a rewarding musical trip across the globe that even well-travelled musicians will appreciate and enjoy.

— Classical Singer Magazine

Singers and voice teachers will find this volume a useful introduction to world music. . . . it provides insight into the rich diversity of vocal music around the globe.
— Journal of Singing

This star cast of writers presents an engaging catalyst to spark further discussion. Our K-12 choral directors are way ahead of most of many voice teachers in the inclusion of world music, and I hope we soon follow their example.
— Martha Randall, University of Maryland, president, American Academy of Teachers of Singing

This colorful compendium pays tribute to a grand variety of the world’s brilliant vocal practices. So You Want to Sing World Music will entice readers to seek out the recordings of notable singers even as they read about their song styles. Singers and song-lovers alike will find the volume to be a captivating read.
— Patricia Shehan Campbell, Music, Education, and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and Communities

So You Want to Sing World Music

A Guide for Performers

Edited by Matthew Hoch

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A Guide for Performers

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