A decline or even depression of vocal answers of the type seen in the blockade experiments could not be detected.
Two versions of "Dancing Machine" seem excessive on paper, but after listening to the differing approaches--Polow's electronica-meets-vocal answer backs versus Steve Aoki's visit to the early '80s--it's almost like they're not even the same song.
The music sounded more open ended, with improvisatory lead vocals answered by eager group refrains.
On the chorus, Manson's main vocal is answered by an "aah-ah" of voice and guitar together.
Through the tracks, the lead trumpeter, Oscar (Floresita) Velasco, hammers out straight-to-the-point, robust improvisations; Carlos Embale's elegant lead vocals are answered by six voices singing in response, over seven drummers.
"It's blasphemy to even suggest it," he added, "but why can't opera singers combine vocal styles?" The answer, of course, is that many of the younger ones -- Bryn Terfel, Anne Sofie von Otter, Sylvia McNair and Dawn Upshaw among them -- have been doing it for years.
Its 15-man lineup incorporates the brass-section muscle of a Cuban conjunto, with three trombones punching out riffs, and the refinement of a Cuban charanga, with violins and flute lightly answering vocal lines.
"We have to become vocal and demand answers from Imraan," Kettering Town Supporters Trustt press officer Karen Spencer told BBC Radio Northampton.
He plucked a steady rhythm, meanwhile, with a repeating note on one string while the other carried a melody line: sharing it with the voice and sometimes answering a vocal line with an instrumental refrain.
"What the heck is this music?" Standing there in the doorway of my South Bronx classroom, watching seventy-plus Black and Latino/a students dancing to the Siam-via-Broadway soundscape of reverberating gongs, pentatonic xylophone riffs and heavily (if inauthentically) Asian-inflected vocals, I try to answer Alethea's question as clearly as I can.
