Barbershop Dustup

Barbershop Dustup

Lynn Abbott, in American Music (Faf1992), Univ. of LU. Press, 54 E. Gregory Dr., Champaign, 111. 61820.
Mention barbershop quartet, and a Gay Nineties im- age of dapper white barbers and- their patrons har- monizing together comes to mind. The impression that barbershopping is a white tradition was fos- tered for decades the Society for the Preserva- tion and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, founded in 1938 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Abbott, an independent scholar, strikes a dissonant...

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