Doug Seroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 156708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doug Seroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doug |
| FAMILY NAME | Seroff |
| SIGNATURE | SEROFF D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A voice in the wilderness”
"They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me"
Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, "They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues, American Music, Vol. 14, No. 4, New Perspectives on the Blues (Winter, 1996), pp. 402-454
A Brief Introduction to the Zulu Choirs
Black American four-part vocal harmony has roots that predate the Civil War. Although African traditional music is rich in polyphonic singing and its own peculiar harmonies, the simple triad is practically never found. The triad is a fundamental substructure of Western quartet harmony, and perhaps for this reason it has been mistakenly assumed that there are no strong African quartet-singing traditions. In fact, an expansive parallel heritage of …
Old-Time Black Gospel Quartet Contests
Quartet singers claim that anytime two quartets appeared on the same program, there was automatically a contest, each group intent upon stealing the house from the other. More formal competitions, however, appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, complete with judges, cash prizes, and a standard method of point scoring. It is reported that on one occasion twenty-three quartets performed at a high school in Laurel, Mississippi, competing for a total o…
Jubilee to Gospel
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Jubilee to Gospel
A Brief Introduction to the Zulu Choirs
Black American four-part vocal harmony has roots that predate the Civil War. Although African traditional music is rich in polyphonic singing and its own peculiar harmonies, the simple triad is practically never found. The triad is a fundamental substructure of Western quartet harmony, and perhaps for this reason it has been mistakenly assumed that there are no strong African quartet-singing traditions. In fact, an expansive parallel heritage of …
Old-Time Black Gospel Quartet Contests
Quartet singers claim that anytime two quartets appeared on the same program, there was automatically a contest, each group intent upon stealing the house from the other. More formal competitions, however, appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, complete with judges, cash prizes, and a standard method of point scoring. It is reported that on one occasion twenty-three quartets performed at a high school in Laurel, Mississippi, competing for a total o…
"They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me"
Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, "They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues, American Music, Vol. 14, No. 4, New Perspectives on the Blues (Winter, 1996), pp. 402-454
A voice in the wilderness”
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