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Singing the Rite to Belong: Ritual, Music, and the New Irish

by Helen Phelan

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 2.3 cm

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This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Charting Ireland's growing multiculturalism, changing patterns of migration, the diminished influence of Catholicism, and synergies between indigenous and global forms of cultural expression, it explores rights and rites of belonging in contemporary Ireland. Helen Phelan examines a range of religious, educational, civic and community-based rituals including religious rituals of new migrant communities in "borrowed" rituals spaces; baptismal rituals in the context of the Irish citizenship referendum; rituals that mythologize the core values of an educational institution; a ritual laboratory for students of singing; and community-based festivals and performances. Her investigation peels back the physiological, emotional and cultural layers of singing to illuminate how it functions as a potential agent of belonging. Each chapter engages theoretically with one of five core characteristic of singing (resonance, somatics, performance, temporality, and tacitness) in the context of particular performed rituals. Phelan offers a persuasive proposal for ritually-framed singing as a valuable and potent tool in the creation of inclusive, creative and integrated communities of belonging.
Singing the Rite to Belong: Ritual, Music, and the New Irish and Common Worship: Marriage Booklet
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  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press, USA

  • Published

    May 2017

  • Weight

    482g

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780190672232

  • ISBN-10

    0190672234

  • Eden Code

    4684132

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