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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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it has been a pretty quiet week, although there was excellent schadenfreude yesterday from Ron Desantis dropping out

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[โ€“] apis@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Wow. That sounds like a blast. Have heard some Barbershop & knew it is a US college tradition, but had no idea about the brigades.

As a curious aside, saw a thing on television just this evening about a Portuguese musical tradition which exists in their universities. The style & tunes are very different to Barbershop, and they make use of string instruments as well (though everybody has to sing) but they too have familiar repertoire and appear at various events on campus, as well as competing with other university troupes.

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_(music)

[โ€“] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

I've heard of that in Portugal! Barbershop is actually an art form that was appropriated from African slaves who brought an oral tradition with them to America and morphed from the spirituals they sang; it was developed more though the Vaudeville practice and modern barbershop (the organization and preservation of the art form) started as a lark in the 40s. The less I sing it, the more I enjoy it when I do - it's very distinctive, so a little goes a long way.