Remembering How You Know a Song
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
Reason #134: Remembering How You Know a Song
One of the most powerful effects of music is its capacity to trigger memories. Because most a cappella groups focus their repertoires on cover songs, and tend to cover music from a range of time periods and genres, a performance has plenty of potential to expose a diverse range of audience members to music that will resonate with them, summoning an equally diverse range of memories.
As an audience member, one of the sweetest moments comes when you not only recognize a song, but can place the moment in time from which you remember that song. The experience offers fans, as much as the singers on stage, a rich opportunity to participate in the performance and mentally mold it as they see fit.
I love it!