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Throat singing - Non-Traditional Styles

Throat singing - Non-Traditional Styles: Encyclopedia II - Throat singing - Non-Traditional Styles

America and Europe – The 1920s Texan singer of cowboy songs, Arthur Miles, independently created a style of throat singing as a substitute for the normal yodeling of country western music. Starting in the 1970s, some musicians in the West either have collaborated with or ventured into the realm of throat singing, or both, some making original musical contributions and helping this art rediscover its transcultural universality. As harmonics are universal to all voices, the notion of authenticity is best understood in terms of musical ...

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Throat singing: Encyclopedia II - Throat singing - Non-Traditional Styles

Throat singing - Non-Traditional Styles

America and Europe – The 1920s Texan singer of cowboy songs, Arthur Miles, independently created a style of throat singing as a substitute for the normal yodeling of country western music. Starting in the 1970s, some musicians in the West either have collaborated with or ventured into the realm of throat singing, or both, some making original musical contributions and helping this art rediscover its transcultural universality. As harmonics are universal to all voices, the notion of authenticity is best understood in terms of musical quality. Musicians of note in this genre include Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ry Cooder, Paul Pena, David Hykes (who created the term "harmonic singing" in 1975), and Steve Sklar. Lester Bowie and Ornette Coleman both worked with the Tenores di Bitti, and Eleanor Hovda has written a piece using the Xhosa style of singing. DJs and performers of electronic music have also merged their music either with throat singing itself or with the theory of harmonics behind it.

Rajasthan - Ethnomusicologist John Levy recorded a Rajasthani singer utilizing overtones in imitation of either a jew's harp or a double-flute. There is no tradition of this style of singing there.