So You Want to Sing World Music explores vocal music from around the globe. Over the past several decades, world music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall performances. This book serves as a compendium of these genres while also offering technical approaches to singing non-Western styles. In this volume, 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 genres, North Indian classical singing, Native American vocal music, Mexican mariachi, Lithuanian Sutartines, Georgian polyphony, Egyptian vocal music, Persian avaz, 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 the 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.
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 & Eamonn Costello Chapter 9: Celtic and Celtic Pop, Elizabeth L. Blades Chapter 10: Exploring and Performing Lithuanian Sutartines, 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: Avaz: 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
