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Old 05-14-2004, 10:37 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by HOKAHEYGUY
Dose anyone know the true story of how northern and southern singing came along like why northern singers sing high and why southern sing low?
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HOKA:

It wasn't always this way.

By listening to old recordings (cylinder and reel-to-reel) of both northern and southern singers - many nothern singers did not sing as high as they do today. Whereas many southern singers also had a different style and many actually sang higher than they do today. So both were more closer in vocal range in days of the past.

Many northern ceremonies are sung in a lower vocal range, even today.

Go figure?

But then again, we are heading to a point where southern powwow singers are beginning to "sky" their voices, while northern powwow singers are beginning to sing southern songs.

Go figure?

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