Note: All links in this post direct to music videos on YouTube, so feel free to click through and listen while you read!
One of the amazing things about vocal harmony, in my opinion, is that it is impossible to do it on your own. It's a community activity. It requires cooperation. It requires not just singing together, but listening to each other and blending (beautiful blending demonstrated here by The Beatles). You have to tune in to those who you are singing with, and this inevitably makes you feel more connected with those people.
It's no wonder that whenever there is a desire to galvanise a community, communal singing often comes into it, whether it is football chants, national anthems or church hymns. Gareth Malone's TV series "The Choir" has gone some way to demonstrate the power that choirs have to bring communities together, and to share part of themselves (their voice) in the aid of creating something bigger than themselves.
So if you want a revolution, perhaps music is a good place to start!
So if you want a revolution, perhaps music is a good place to start!
Image: Me singing with my barbershop group, Head Row, in Leeds.
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