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Thread #144099   Message #3333422
Posted By: mg
04-Apr-12 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: Disappearance of communal singing in US
Subject: RE: Disappearance of communal singing in US
I imagine there are phone apps or something or there could be that people could download say 50 songs to sing along with others...maybe various groupings....so there could easily be a regaining of shared songs...it is happening..someone sang along with her ipod at a workshop at singtime...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lMhBSxVLg&feature=related
Here is something nostalgic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lMhBSxVLg&feature=related ..

I think part of the problem has been music in schools and music "arrangements"...when kids need to sing with gusto and in a simple, unarranged manner for the most part...no wiernesd discordant arrangements of standard tunes..simple instruments that people actually play later in life like guitars and concertinas..fewer band instruments..I think that some good could easily come out of a simplifying of music programs with simpler songs, simpler arrangements, etc.


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