Acapella Conference – “Break it Down in Boston”

Title: Acapella Conference – “Break it Down in Boston”

General Information about Item:

  • Folklore: rituals, traditions
  • Language: English
  • Country where Item is from: United States of America

Informant Data:

  • Trevor Davis is an ’18 that joined X.ado his freshman year and sang in his high school choir for three years. He is 21 years old. He was born in Wheaton, Illinois. He grew up and still lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is majoring in computer science, and minoring in math and anthropology.

Contextual Data:

  • Social Context

This conference provides a way for X.ado to socialize and connect with more people, and serves as an event for the people within X.ado to connect and socialize amongst themselves. All members of X.ado who can attend the conference participate in this event and this has been a tradition for as long as the informant can remember. At the conference, members of X.ado meet and interact with people from other acapella groups across the country.

The people in

  • Cultural Context

People that engage in similar activities or are like minded like to connect, network , and socialize with each other. X.ado is no exception to this. There are many Christian acapella groups all over the United States and this conference allows X.ado to interact with similar people from different schools. X.ado also tries to create an inclusive culture amongst its team and this conference allows the team to bond and become closer as members travel to another school together.

Item:

Members of X.ado attend the “Break it Down in Boston” conference, which is a conference for Christian acapella groups to meet up. This conference usually occurs sometime in the early spring.

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

https://youtu.be/o15wfAOuSWk

Transcript of Associated File:

A couple of things that got introduced in the group that changed since we got founded one is that we do more activities as a group. We have prayer partners where you match with someone individual in the group, that helps us bond more and know people on an individual basis since rehearsal’s everyone all together, and also as we become more established and groups like ours spread, we have more interactions with those groups. For example, there’s this conference we do every year called “Break it down Boston” which is a gathering of all the different Christian acapella groups so it’s a very different dynamic than you have with other musical conferences and that’s a cool way to see how our group along with other groups has evolved over time as we become more of a national thing.

Informant’s Comments:

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Collector’s Comments:

  • It’s not at all uncommon for college students to attend meetups and conferences. There are conferences for many different interest groups, such as for demographic factors (race and gender), intellectual interests, and for sports as well. These conferences serve as a way for people to meet people to network with that share some factor with them.

Collector’s Name: Marcus Reid

Compiled/Analyzed by: Afnan Enayet/Sruthi Pasupuleti

Tags/Keywords:

  • Acapella
  • Singing
  • Conference
  • Tradition

 

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