#1 - The Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (1964 Original):
#2 - The Sound of Silence - Disturbed (2015 Cover):
#3 - The Sound of Silence - Pentatonix (2019 Cover):
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I found myself wondering about my comment on the tradition of troubadors. I know it as European but was it more universal? I really don’t know. So I went to Wiki. . . They discuss troubadors in Europe but then . . . "an alternative theory to explain the meaning of trobar as “to compose, to discuss, to invent”. It has the support of some historians and musicologists to justify the troubadours’ origins in Arabic practices. How universal is this tradition of song. Do all cultures have the singing story-tellers, truth tellers?
That’s a good question, Bettina. I only know of the European troubadours. I love your phrase “singing story-tellers”.
I looked it up . . using AI . . and yes, there is a tradition of singing story-tellers in many continents, with slightly different approaches but similar enough. In ages past they were the “social-network.” 