A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet
by
Gage Averill
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the...