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From:  Tako Oda <toda@m...>
Tako Oda <toda@m...>
Date:  Tue Mar 13, 2001  5:47 pm
Subject:  Gay? Re: What's a countertenor?


Reg Boyle <bandb@n...> wrote:
Reg Boyle <bandb@n...> wrote:

> I hesitate....but let's not divert another glorious word as happened to GAY.

I'm not really sure what you're saying here, but I can run with it and
follow up my last message about gender stuff. As I said, what people
consider natural and false is always going to be in reference at least in
part to their culture's gender ideology.

Men in the US and continental Europe are expected to stay in chest voice
for speaking at all times. Women can speak in head, mix or chest. There
seems to be leeway in Britain, where men often float into head during
normal speech. Any wonder there are so many countertenors there?

Anyway, back to the US and continental Europe. Out-of-the-closet gay men
are going to be much less likely to adhere to traditional male roles, since
they have a culture of their own, with its own spectrum of butch->femme. We
all know gay men who have very lilting high voices, ironically, some of
these men have low singing voices (think Gomer Pyle). So sure, it might
seem much more logical for a gay man to explore the idea of singing
countertenor and bucking the gender-status quo, since he's already probably
getting hell for doing it in other areas of his life already.

Tako



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  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date Size
10231 Re: Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? Reg Boyle   Tue  3/13/2001   3 KB
10251 Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? Tako Oda   Wed  3/14/2001   3 KB
10257 Re: Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? Reg Boyle   Wed  3/14/2001   3 KB
10261 Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? Tako Oda   Thu  3/15/2001   3 KB
10255 Re: Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? qed   Wed  3/14/2001   2 KB
10276 Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? Tako Oda   Thu  3/15/2001   2 KB
10288 Re: Gay? Reg Boyle   Fri  3/16/2001   3 KB
10260 Re: Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? Greypins@a...   Thu  3/15/2001   2 KB
10262 Re: Gay? Re: What's a countertenor? Reg Boyle   Thu  3/15/2001   3 KB

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