All CCM Singing is AfroCanto. So Why Don't They Call it That?
Вставка
- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- This is a video of my presentation at the Voice Foundation's Symposium in Philadelphia, PA on June 5th, 2022. I have been speaking about the lack of respect for popular music in academia for the past 40 years. Things finally seem to be changing for the better and an excellent next step would be to recognize where the roots of this giant musical tree get its sound.
contact: mbaxter@voicelesson.com
/ mark.baxter.3762
/ baxteronsinging
/ voicelesson
www.voicelesson.com
Hits right in the gut. "Is our goal to educate or indoctrinate" . I need everyone in the world to watch this.
Something that I have been thinking about for quite some time. You put in words! You're the best, Mark!
This got me kicked out of music history class 45 years ago!
@@voicelessondotcom Didn't prevent you from being a great musician and techer!
@@derplueschdoktor1566 Thanks! :)
Afro Canto, wisdom, check your bias. Mark youve helped me tremendously. forever grateful! hope we can meet one day soon
I hope so too!
@purlple17 - Just make the decision and the rest will sort itself out!
All the best
Interesting talk, Mark! Love the historical perspective. Not only did The Voice Foundation honor two incredible singers from different genres this year, but the symposium focused on Voice and Culture during the Friday morning special session. Great timing!
Thanks Nancy! I'm sorry we didn't get to meet at the symposium - hope you're feeling better!
@@voicelessondotcom Thanks! I was so sorry to miss your talks in person (thanks, COVID!), but I’m glad I could see this one posted here.
I thank you so much for sharing also such exquisite eloquence with us all! The accuracy, elegant trait and matter of fact approach with which you handle these paramount topics, blending them with the art of singing, is a priceless gift that profoundly inspires us!! Thank you so so much Sir!!♥️
Thank you for letting me know of this word cover I never even heard of it before. It goes to show you how there still a lot of reluctance to give black culture credit.
So true!
Yeah this is awesome, a much needed discussion
Thanks for commenting!
Fascinating. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Thank You Mark!
You're welcome!
Wow Mark, just fantastic this. Massive respects from London
Thanks for commenting!
That was a surpising and interesting piece of knowledge :)
I didn't even know popular music had its roots in africa :O
Glad to pass that important understanding along!
Oh come on that is well-known. I just didn’t know it was supposed to be called Afro Canto.
I am giggling right from the get go, cause the voice you are using has brought to my mind a phenomenal series of funny videos, and one in particular, from around ten years ago. I am hoping you haven't seen them cause then I would be so pleased to link it to you. I won't attach a link though since UA-cam tends to moderate such posts.
My email is mbaxter@voicelesson.com. Send the link!
Sent it! I forgot to mention it's on UA-cam!
This information is excellent!
Thanks for commenting!
Fantastic lecture.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for your truth Mark!
Definitely serendipitous timing to have met you 😇🙏🏽
A pleasure working with you, Jennifer!
@@voicelessondotcom likewise Mark!
Thank you for introducing and reinforcing 'calibration and balance' across the board, in so many areas of my life.
Look forward to connecting again soon 😊
I loved that you put culture as an algorithm that runs in our operating system... We sing from the brain and all the sophisticated connections it has built.
Thank you Mark
There's a lot going on behind the curtain!
Wow! Yes! Totally agree!
If not for African music, we’d all be playing chamber music in the parlor. And, clapping on 1&3.
All music is good, some is just better to me.
Ha! That's right!
Great lesson. Thank you so much, Mark!
You're welcome!
Afro Canto...... right in my heart!
Me too!
Excellent dialog. Thanks Mark.
You're welcome!
Nice class.
Glad you liked it!
Big up, Mark. Sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. Thank you so much for saying this bright and straightforward 🙏🏾 we must and should love our roots
Thanks for commenting!
So right!
Let's keep spreading the message.
Gracias
¡De nada!
Genius 👍
I appreciate the post!
This is incredibly amazing!
Glad you liked it!
👏👏👏
Thanks for posting!
I'm so happy that you didn't give the whole lecture in falsetto...haha.../ great information and a different angle of view in your video! thanks for that!
Puberphonia!
@@voicelessondotcom yea...but it was very effective to make us conscious right in the beginnig. experiment: think what would have happened when chinese opera would have become standard world-wide...haha!
@@wolfunplugged Exactly my point!!
This was very interesting and promoted more own thinking in me since nowadays we are very used to take things for granted if they come from science proven facts, which is not enough reason to repeat concepts like trained parrots.
Thanks for the comment!
Wow..That was interesting and a challenge for me to fully understand. . As a non native speaker I had to look up several words 😆
I'm glad you didn't stick to the high voice until the end of the video 😅
Thanks Mark 🤩
Thanks for looking to understand deeper!
@@voicelessondotcom it was too interesting to ignore it 😆
awesome ❤
dear Mark please provide us some mesa di voce lesson
Watch this: ua-cam.com/video/KDqbI0pVtAA/v-deo.html
That was very cool Mark!
Glad you liked it!
Great Jordan Peterson impression in the beginning. 😄
But seriously, very interesting video.
Hahaha - not my intention but I get it! :)
That is an interesting fact that I did not know about! I mean I knew that a lot of our music is inspired by Black Americans, but I didn’t know that the African Americans themselves got it from their ancestors!
Absolutely.
Hey there, big fan of your stuff!! What’s the song name at the end of all your videos? Thank you!
The name is "Possibilities". It's from a long time student of mine named Bowman. The song is off his album Believe: open.spotify.com/album/556hrz7X6rxYNS78TgDFeg
Wow! I was just thinking about you! I really over worked my voice like never before over the last few months, it's a long story. What can I do, other than rest my voice if I seemed to have really strained it?😔
By the way, the info you shared in this video is very enlightening.
THANK YOU, for the outstanding content 🎤🎶🎵🎼
Warm your voice everyday with semi-occluded exercises like blowing through a straw inside water, etc. This has helped me.
Watch this: ua-cam.com/video/E-EsLY97U_U/v-deo.html
@@G..G..
Thanks so much ! I've been watching your vids for a while and they absolutely have helped me a lot🤗🎤🎤🎤🎼🎼🎶
Disagree, much like many of the wonderful things that we enjoy in modern civilization, blues, which is where all ccm music has its roots, was developed by the blending of traditional european music with the music of the African slaves. The I IV V chord progression is clearly out of European classical music. The gorgeous sound that results when a minor third (as well as many semitones/other non-diatonic tones) is played over a dominant 7th chord, is the result of a blending of cultures, so modern ccm music has its roots in both African music and European music. Why does it always have to be one or the other in this day in age, what ever happened to 'both'.
Disagree with what? If you watched the video you would have seen that the term AfroCanto is a tribute to the cross pollination of African (Afro) and Western European (Canto) cultures. What the music was NEVER about at the beginning was commercial acceptance.
@@voicelessondotcom I guess I thought you were saying the roots were only from the African music. So it is a blending of two different cultures music!
Why not call it well-canto, as it is sustainably good and healthy and a blessing for well-being...
That would be the label for ALL singing!
Do you have any workout for vocal closure?
Absolutely: ua-cam.com/video/Nk3UBTHhqnM/v-deo.html
This seems quite hyperbolic. What you call the “root” of all popular music can more accurately be described as an “influence.”
Absolutely no exaggeration. Every music style I listed emerged first from the deep south of the United States and then spread around the world. These music styles now are so far removed from their origins that it seems like a slight influence. Check your music history and you'll see "root" is the correct term.
@@voicelessondotcom You’re ignoring every other influence and inflating the African influences. No one is saying African styles didn’t play an important role. But categorizing all popular music as African is hyperbolic.
@@AnimeMovement It seems you didn't watch the presentation. I stated the reason I'm combining the words Afro with Canto is to acknowledge the combination of Western-European and African roots in Popular music. Unfortunately, the African origin is never highlighted in academic singing instruction, nor in the medical literature. I suspect that's why you are calling it hyperbolic I also explained in this presentation how the Asian culture would have greatly benefited our approach to vocal science.
@@voicelessondotcom On the contrary, the African origins seem to be everywhere in current dialogue. Maybe not so much in more traditional formal education, but these ideas are certainly taking hold, and oftentimes in the exaggerated forms I took issue with before. Talking about the fusion of different styles seems like a much healthier approach. I don’t agree that highlighting one influence at the expense of others is the proper remedy to traditional oversight of that influence. That’s basically a different version of the same thing, but I do understand where you are coming from. Thanks.
Thanks for the singing insights but your definition of culture is very lacking.
What's yours?
@@voicelessondotcom In its broadest sense the set of distinctive traits, spiritual and material, intellectual and affective, which characterize a society or a social group. Not just an explanation for prejudice.
@@Major00Tom Think it through a little deeper: Culture is not a trait, or set of traits. Culture is the phenomena that drives social animals to abide by a set of traits. Your definition is like stating that trees swaying back and forth is wind. When the reality is that wind is the invisible force that causes the trees to sway. That's why I describe it as an "algorithm running in our brains". This fits your broad definition as well as my specific point. I stated that culture is the foundation of bias - that doesn't exclude it from influencing other human traits and behaviors.