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Written by Joshua S. Duchan
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Monday, 04 September 2006 |
Every once in a while I stop and think to myself, “It’s a little bit crazy, this thing we do: gigging.” This leads me to two conclusions: first, that there’s nothing about gigging that’s natural. That is, nowhere is it written that gigs have to be done a certain way or called by certain names. Conventions have evolved in musical communities (including the a cappella world and beyond) over time based on social, musical, historical, and economic factors; it’s just that they change so slowly and we’re so used to things being the way they are that they seem normal. Second, those things we call “gigs” are actually not all the same. There are lots of different kinds of gigs with different things going on musically and economically. Ever the academic, I did a little research on gigs and related it to my broader research on contemporary collegiate a cappella. Here’s a little snippet of what I found— perhaps you can find some similarities and differences between gigs in another musical genre and our own.
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