August 10, 2010 
The Voice in Sound and Vision
A two-hour workshop with ethnomusicologist, Allison Adrian of St. Catherine University, St. Paul MN.
Allison Adrian will explore the voice through music and image. How do rural and urban environments shape the human voice and vice versa? How does the voice change according to its cultural, political and historical context? In music, we will consider yootzing, a vocal tradition in rural Switzerland that alternates head voice with chest voice (high-low) to produce its sound. We will also investigate one of the oldest American choral traditions, sacred harp singing, by briefly examining its roots in the rural South and listening to some of its contemporary forms.