Reviving polyphonic singing in Corsica 08:07 Lisa Bryant 02/25/2015 Corsica's polyphonic chants are enjoying a comeback in the island's village bars and concert halls. What's more, women are now ...

The Corsican vocal quartet Barbara Furtuna formed in 2004 to explore the traditional music of the French island of Corsica. The group still finds its inspiration in the island’s oldest traditions ...

Corsica is one of the few French territories to have a repertoire of songs that are steeped in history and still in use today, songs that blend the sacred and the secular and which will be given pride ...

Polyphonic singing in Corsica—ancient, learned, yet tangy and rough-edged—was almost extinct until a revival that began in the nineteen-seventies. This four-man a-cappella group (named after an ...