Rowman & Littlefield Publishers So You Want to Sing World Music: A Guide for Performers: 17

Product Description 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. Review 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 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 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 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).