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How much does the concept of culture affects our way of singing and vice versa?
Since I started singing, one of the questions I have always asked was: how much the society in which I live, with annexed its ability to crumble, condition the sound when I sing?
Listening carefully the recordings of my concerts, I have often perceived the presence of cadences and influences related to the Piedmontese dialect, a region in which I was born and in which I live. Over time, thanks to my wandering, I understood that not only the artistic expression is conditioned by the culture of a people, but also the teaching of singing has its own way of approach based on the place where to teach.
Starting from this introduction that could be trivial, I would like to make you know the great British anthropologist Edward Tylor considered the founding father of modern anthropology. The definition of the Culture concept arises from him :
Culture is that complex set that includes knowledge, belief, law, morality, costume and art.
What do you want to assume this definition?
Taylor defines the study of culture as the understanding of people's lives as members of a society in which religion, language, rituals and of course music and singing can determine the evolutionary process of the society itself.
Why is culture singing?
As you know, I am very passionate about strategies and analyzes, to such an extent that the reading of various treaties of Edward Tylor, led me to deepen the study of the comparative methodology, used by the scholar. As mentioned above, the language, being an integral part and a half evolutionary of the concept of culture, can influence our way of singing and expressing concepts, phrases and words, altering certain vowels and consonants at acoustic level, thus building small distortions mainly linked to 'use of idioms, while talking, but above all when you sing.
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