Well, me and a friend of mine, who is an anthropologist, Antônio
Marcos Pereira, used to talk about the remote origins of black
brazilian music, and black music in the americas as well. He has a
lot of writings and articles about this. And he also knows a lot of
other academic sources wich are beyond my readings. If you really
wanna know about it, i can give you his email.
Also, i read in a booklet of a Smithsonian compiled CD, containing
some field recordings of Alan Lomax, about this happening in early
american black music.
Well, of course this heritage of the african languages are not the
only one factor to influence scat singing. I think we have to
consider the choir note and harmony verbalizations and intuitive
rhythm aliterations as well.
Kw
On 28/04/2008, at 22:29, Frank Glazer wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Kowalsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This article is interesting, but it gives no clue about why people
started
singing like this.
Well, the most probable cause lies in the early black music
brought by the
diaspora to the americas, when black people from africa sung in
their own
native languages. When these languages were forgotten, people
continued to
sing emulating those sounds.
do you have any academic source for this explanation?
peace,
frank
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