Barbershop singing also offers boys an alternative to singing in church choirs, where the high-pitched songs put off some youngsters.
Ms. Guerra — whose most recent album, "Hombre Invisible," won a 2010 Latin Grammy for best alternative album — sang about desire and transformation; her songs were chunky rock or pulsating funk, letting her voice sail from entranced, breathy delicacy to passionate growls and wails.
In direct response to the Jackson breast-baring, Sky Angel, a national Christian television network, the next year offered a halftime alternative to Paul McCartney singing "Hey Jude," with a special that included testimony from Christian athletes, as well as commentary about the Patriots-Eagles matchup.
And dance, in particular, presents an absorbing alternative to singing and taking part in gospel choirs, that staple of evangelical church worship.
The scores are interspersed with harsh, jarring gestures, often produced through distortions of conventional timbre: hard bowing near the bridge of a string instrument, crashing clusters on the piano, multiphonics in the winds (multiple tones generated by alternative fingerings or by singing while playing).
Pushing against barriers like language and media formats, "Latin alternative" is mostly sung (or rapped) in Spanish, mostly operates outside mainstream radio and television, and encompasses indie-rock, punk, hip-hop, electronica and as yet unnamed, border-hopping hybrids.
Imagine, however, an alternative universe where instead of singing about environmentalism at that rally (know your audience, dude!), Van Driessen loses his seemingly eternal patience, jumps into the driver's seat and sadistically runs over Beavis and Butt-Head.
I was searching for an alternative to the diluted approach of singing competitions on television.
There is evidence that the choice between alternative mating tactics typically employed by a singing insect or anuran may depend on characteristics of the conspecific advertisement signals [14].
July 22 2014 July 23 201414 For two decades, Aaron Freeman was Gene Ween, writing songs, singing, and playing guitar for alternative rock's strangest band, Ween.
