[clarification needed] Nowadays, a "revival" of folk singing made this style universal, equal and de facto flat.
Eastern researchers are also of the opinion that a long unison and loud, strong voice was believed to have magical powers in traditional cultures.
[2] The white voice has been used during such rites of passage as baptism, weddings, burials and annual rituals bound to rural year, khorovodes,[3] in large gatherings and in small spaces.
Best known contemporary bands that continue that style of singing (but are not based in villages and comprise rather typical modern city singers) are: Go_A, Drevo, and DakhaBrakha from Ukraine,[4] The Bulgarian Voices Angelite,[5] Svetlana Spajić from Serbia, Trys Keturiose from Lithuania that sing sutartinės, Południce and Tulia from Poland, Narodnyj Prazdnik (Народний Праздник) from Russia and Guda from Belarus.
In Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria white voice takes part in polyphonic singing.