A History of Singing

by John Potter and Neil Sorrell

Why do we sing and what first drove early humans to sing? How might they have sung and how might those styles have survived to the present day? This history addresses these questions and many more, examining singing as a historical and cross-cultural phenomenon. It explores the evolution of singing in a global context - from Neanderthal Man to Auto-tune via the infinite varieties of world music from Orient to Occident, classical music from medieval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521817056
• ISBN13: 9780521817059
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"