Current creativities in multipart singing practice

The pervasive diffusion of instruments for sound recording and reproduction has radically changed (and is still continuously changing) our concept of music inducing us to think of music as a thing. It afflicts all the making music scenarios all over the world with different impacts and consequences. Within what we still call “oral music” - but it would be better to use the Walter Ong's concept of “secondary orality” since a real “pure orality” is only a theoretical abstraction – a very wide range of deep “in becoming” transformations concerns both the music performances and its conversational representations. It is particularly manifest within multipart music oral practices that, as coordinate collective actions, show symbolically elaborated formulations of music creativities consciously shared by the performers. This is what the paper deals with on the basis of a lengthy dialogical research experience on a multipart singing practice in a Sardinian village, Santu Lussurgiu.