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"In 1953, while making high-fidelity recordings of folk singing in every province of Spain, I observed that Spanish performance style varied in terms of the severity of prohibitions against feminine premarital intercourse. In southern Spain, where sexual sanctions were Oriental in their stringency, a piercing, high-pitched, squeezed, narrow vocal delivery was cultivated which made choral performance all but impossible. North towards the Pyrenees, among the Basques, Callegos, and Asturians, where sexual sanctions were mild and contact between the sexes was easy and relaxed, there was a strong preference for well-blended choirs singing in open and low-pitched voices."
-- Alan Lomax, quoted in Timothy Mitchells' Flamenco Deep Song
Hahahahaha. I don't buy it at all, really, not yet anyway, but what a hilarious and interesting idea. And he makes the analogy soooo clear in the way he describes the singing styles. Heh. Heh.
....Okay, this is middle-schoolish. Back to work.
-- Alan Lomax, quoted in Timothy Mitchells' Flamenco Deep Song
Hahahahaha. I don't buy it at all, really, not yet anyway, but what a hilarious and interesting idea. And he makes the analogy soooo clear in the way he describes the singing styles. Heh. Heh.
....Okay, this is middle-schoolish. Back to work.