Details

Subject(s)

• Community music—Case studies [Browse]
• Community music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Choral music—Social aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Morgan-Ellis, Esther M., 1984- [Browse]
• Norton, Kay [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing shows in abundant detail that singing with others is thriving. Using an array of interdisciplinary methods, chapter authors prioritize participation rather than performance and provide finely grained accounts of group singing in community, music therapy, religious, and music education settings. Themes associated with protest, incarceration, nation, hymnody, group bonding, identity, and inclusivity infuse the 47 chapters. Written almost wholly during the 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic, the Handbook features a section dedicated to collective singing facilitated by audiovisual or communications media (mediated singing), some of it quarantine-mandated. The last of eight substantial sections is a repository of new theories about how group singing practices work. Throughout, the authors problematize the limitations inherited from the western European choral music tradition and report on workable new remedies to counter those constraints"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Title from publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : singing as community, singing into community, and growing the singing community
• Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and Kay Norton
• Part I. Media and the imagination of community. Introduction to Part I, Media and the imagination of community
• Esther M. Morgan-Ellis ; Mediated community singing
• Esther M. Morgan-Ellis ; Selling with singalongs : community singing as advertising in cinema, radio and television
• Malcolm Cook ; Singing into a smartphone : the persuasive affordances of karaoke and lip-syncing apps
• Byrd McDaniel ; What the pandemic couldn't take away : group singing benefits that survived going online
• Kay Norton ; Virtual choirs and issues of community choral practice
• Cole Bendall ; Community singing in the age of coronavirus : the case of collegiate a cappella
• Joshua S. Duchan
• Part II. Singing in place-based communities. Introduction to Part II, Singing in place-based communities
• Esther M. Morgan-Ellis ; "Some old remembered song" : music at the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, 1825-1840
• Glen W. Hicks ; New music for old prayers : identity construction and community building in Zimbabwean Black Jewish synagogues
• Lior Shragg ; Vernacular Christmas carol singing in the Southern Pennines of England
• Ian Russell ; "Take me out" to "Sweet Caroline" : collective singing in the ballpark
• Matthew W. Mihalka ; "Singing their heads off" : sing-along behavior in the nightlife of Northern England
• Alisun Pawley ; Brigadoon in the Heights : fostering intimacy, community, and activism through secular leftist hymnody
• Eve McPherson
• Part III. The practitioner's perspective. Introduction to Part III, The practitioner's perspective
• Kay Norton ; Benefits of community singing for cancer patients, survivors and
• caregivers
• Amy Clements-Cortés and Joyce Yip ; "It's about the relationships" : epiphanies in songleading
• Roger Mantie and Glenn Marais ; "Everyone can sing": class choirs in 0th through 3rd grades and the significance of community singing for pupils' social wellbeing and school engagement
• Lars Ole Bonde and Stefan Ingerslev ; Singing for singing's sake? : community singing in Norwegian schools
• Anne Haugland Balsnes ; "Scare away the dark" : the promotion of singing to create postsecondary academic communities
• Trudi Wright ; Songs of diversity : three case studies of community singing, identity, and well-being
• Catherine Birch, Ruth Currie, Wayne Dawson, and Stephen Clift
• Part IV. Identity : values, ethnicity, and inherited culture. Introduction to Part IV, Identity : values, ethnicity, and inherited culture
• Kay Norton ; Community choirs : the challenges and possibilities of inclusivity
• Kayla Drudge and Anna E. Nekola ; Blend and balance in trans* choral musicking
• Holly Patch ; Peace and harmony prevailing : masonic singing in the US
• Andrew Schaeffer ; Singing Jewishness : the musical nostalgia of Jewish congregational melodies
• Rachel Adelstein ; Sacred sounds and social justice : singing the spirituals in an interracial and multigenerational community choir
• Aleysia K. Whitmore and Marquisha L. Scott ; Women singing in a rural north Indian community : a case study
• Kamlesh Singh, Suman Sigroha, and Bharti Shokeen
• Part V. Identity : politics, patriotism, and assimilation. Introduction to Part V, Identity: politics, patriotism, and assimilation
• Esther M. Morgan-Ellis ; A "badge of Americanism" : group singing as political expression in the early United States
• Laura Lohman ; Singing at Ellis Island
• Dorothy Glick Maglione ; Community singing in Flint and Baltimore, 1917-1920
• Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and Alan L. Spurgeon ; The Disney chorus : singing along to the studio's forging of American musical identity
• Gregory Camp ; Spectacle and empire : imagined community and the Crystal Palace Handel Festivals
• Charles Edward McGuire ; Estonian singing traditions as an impetus for community building and
• expressing Estonian cultural heritage in Australia
• Naomi Cooper
• Part VI. Transgressing borders, seeking asylum. Introduction to Part VI, Transgressing borders, seeking asylum
• Kay Norton ; The voices of hope : a traveling miracle
• Susan Bishop ; Community singing as counterculture in a women's prison
• Amanda Weber ; Border transgressions : song, story, and communal
• Emilie Amrein and André de Quadros ; Singing, suffering, and liberation in the concentration camps of the South African War
• Erin Johnson-Williams ; Music, emotion, and asylum : wellbeing mapped through choral singing
• Jane W. Davidson, Benjamin P. Leske, and Amanda E. Krause ; Selectively staging the "beloved community" : Sacred Harp singing and racial politics in the Folk Revival
• Jesse P. Karlsberg
• Part VII. Singing and political action. Introduction to Part VII, Singing and political action
• Esther M. Morgan-Ellis ; New firebombs in old bottles : social mobilization and cultural
• resonance of protest songs
• Marek Payerhin ; From "Preguntitas sobre Dios" to "Solo le pido a Dios" : protest and piety in Latin American community singing
• Marcell Silva Steuernagel ; March for the beloved : a brief history of a South Korean protest song
• Jarryn Ha ; "Cielito lindo" or "Son de la negra"? : mariachi, Latinidad, and the Trump Administration
• Cameo Flores ; Youth, group singing, and peacebuilding in urban Zimbabwe
• Simbarashe Gukurume ; The role of hate songs among Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans : the entrapping loop of hatred
• Moshe Bensimon and Shiran Hen
• Part VIII. New paradigms. Introduction to Part VIII, New paradigms
• Kay Norton ; Music and human flourishing in Christian communities
• Nathan Myrick, Benjamin Gessner, and Johnathan Alvarado ; By the rivers of Babylon : re-membering community through the affordance of congregational singing in Greek Orthodox Churches in the United States
• Alexander K. Khalil ; Community singing, the Church of England, and spirituality : the singer, the song, and the singing
• June Boyce-Tillman ; Top-down and bottom-up processes of entrainment in communal singing
• Guy Hayward ; From art music to heart music : the place of the composer in community singing
• Fiona Evison.

Show 65 more Contents items

Other title(s)

Community singing

ISBN

• 9780197612460 (hardcover)
• 0197612466 (hardcover)

LCCN

2023041868

OCLC

1396560957

Statement on responsible collection description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...