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...honestly wouldn’t say that we should perform more on campus,” Stone says. “I feel like people get a capella?...
Groups are also forced to compete for practice space, off-campus gigs, and even songs to perform. The co-ed groups use an online a cappella database to prevent problems that may arise from two groups learning or arranging the same song. Mallory says the database was created about five years ago to help resolve the common dilemma that arises when groups start to overlap in genre and style...
...database seems proof to some that the number of a cappella groups has swelled in excess. DeSimone predicts that the current growth of the a cappella scene will soon subside by the law of supply and demand. He observes that the number of groups changes the way the campus perceives and acts toward a cappella...
Breaking into the Harvard a cappella scene with its years of established history was no simple feat. Wilson explains that the process of becoming an official campus organization entails proving the proposed group is not identical to an existing group. “Because we were singing black music, they said, ‘Well, there’s already Kuumba,’” Wilson recalls. “We had to show them that a hundred people singing gospel music is very different from twelve people singing ‘Love in This Club...
This exchange may hint at how wary the campus is of supporting any more a cappella groups. But Stone contends that the current scene forces groups to be “more purposeful” about ensuring they are unique. This attempt within a group to make itself distinct contributes to the tight-knit community that characterizes all a cappella groups...