0 a shop where a barber works --
1 a type of singing in which four, usually male, voices in close combination perform popular romantic songs, especially from the 1920s and 1930s: --
a barbershop quartet
2 a place where men and boys get their hair cut --
Early programming consisted of performances by community choral groups, barbershop quartets and polka bands.
However, the news coming out of the valley in the last month reports closing of barbershops, banning of music and disabling of satellite television receivers.
She organised a barbershop concert to support community transport.
Where there is fluidity or interchangeability between roles within that musical community, such as between barbershop arrangers and performers, there is likewise fluidity in the boundaries of the musical work.
This position denies the separability of song and arrangement, with the judgement of style operating on both simultaneously, and thus defines barbershop in terms of its classic repertoire.
Interestingly, though, it is the barbershop liberalizers who, in defining music by its internal structures, evince the kind of formalist view that would normally be associated with high-art discourses.
This represents the wider 'umbrella' of barbershop, including much material that is not suitable for contest, but all the performers represented have made their name in the contest arena.
That is, while the role of composer overlaps only rarely with that of either arranger or performer, all barbershop arrangers will also be, or have been, performers.
