• DOI:10.5406/JAMERFOLK.125.498.0488
Corpus ID: 162252124

Recordings, Technology, and Discourse in Collegiate A Cappella

@article{Duchan2012RecordingsTA,
  title={Recordings, Technology, and Discourse in Collegiate A Cappella},
  author={Joshua S. Duchan},
  journal={Journal of American Folklore},
  year={2012},
  volume={125},
  pages={488 - 502}
}

Joshua S. Duchan

Published 2012

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Journal of American Folklore

Collegiate a cappella is an American musical genre and practice in which self-directed groups of college student singers arrange, perform, and record popular songs without accompaniment. One of its stylistic goals is emulation: its songs should sound like the original artists' recordings, even though they are now a cappella, that is, limited only to voices (Duchan 2007).1 Group lineups (which may be all-male, all-female, or mixed) are transient, so their recordings comprise particular… CONTINUE READING

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