Word: cappella
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DeSimone admits he had a skewed perception of what his Kroks status would accomplish before coming to Harvard. “I sort of came in and thought, you do a cappella in college and you’re gonna be a celebrity!” he says. “Obviously it’s not really like that...
Indeed, many are perplexed and even annoyed by how seriously a cappella members seem to take their craft...
Stone is familiar with the complaints levied at Harvard a cappella singers. “It’s always, ‘Why are you talking about a cappella all the time, it takes over your whole life, I never see you, you only hang out with your a cappella group,’” she says. Stone mentions that these are the same objections one hears to varsity sports, except “it somehow seems less legitimate because you just bop your knees and sing ooh-wah-ooh?...
...like it,” says Shukla. “But I don’t think it’s an end-all. I don’t think that a cappella is like, the pinnacle of musicality at Harvard. But I do think it?...
...People like to call a cappella groups cults,” Mallory says. “I call it more of a culture. We do have a culture and there are traditions that are passed...