Description
The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing embraces an open-ended interpretation of socio-musical practices that can be described with the term community singing. The volume exemplifies community singing as an interdisciplinary field of study that encompasses diverse methodologies and objects of inquiry, and in the process brings together recent research from the fields that have historically engaged with the practice of group singing, including group dynamics, ethnomusicology, music history, music education, music therapy, community music, church music, music performance, sociology, political science, Latin American and North American studies, media studies, embodied psychology, theology, and philosophy.Chapters are divided into eight interdisciplinary sections: "Media and the Imagination of Community", "Singing in Place-Based Communities", "The Practitioner's Perspective", "Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited Culture", "Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and Assimilation", "Transgressing Borders, Seeking Asylum", "Singing and Political Action", and "New Paradigms". Each is prefaced with an introduction that traces the common threads running through the methodologically and topically diverse chapters that examine culturally specific narrow instances of community singing, each confined to a given time and place, in significant detail.The chapters explore community singing as one of two phenomena: the practice of singing as community--the utilization of collective song by communities of place or preference, and the singing of community into existence--the creation or identification of a new community, through singing, that did not exist before. Both practices can profoundly affect participants. The Handbook considers why communities are motivated to sing, what their activities mean, and how practitioners can improve the experience of singing together.
Table of Contents
List of ContributorsIntroduction: Singing as Community, Singing into Community, and Growing the Singing CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis and Kay NortonPart I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityIntroduction to Part I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis1. Mediated Community SingingEsther M. Morgan-Ellis2. Selling with Singalongs: Community Singing as Advertising in Cinema, Radio and TelevisionMalcolm Cook3. Singing into a Smartphone: The Persuasive Affordances of Karaoke and Lip-Syncing AppsByrd McDaniel4. What the Pandemic Couldn't Take Away: Group Singing Benefits That Survived Going OnlineKay Norton5. Virtual choirs and issues of community choral practiceCole Bendall6. Community Singing in the Age of Coronavirus: The Case of Collegiate A CappellaJoshua S. DuchanPart II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesIntroduction to Part II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesEsther M. Morgan-Ellis7. "Some Old Remembered Song": Music at the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, 1825-1840Glen W. Hicks8. New Music for Old Prayers: Identity Construction and Community Building in Zimbabwean Black Jewish SynagoguesLior Shragg9. Vernacular Christmas Carol Singing in the Southern Pennines of EnglandIan Russell10. "Take Me Out" to "Sweet Caroline": Collective Singing in the BallparkMatthew W. Mihalka11. "Singing Their Heads Off": Sing-along Behavior in the Nightlife of Northern EnglandAlisun Pawley12. Brigadoon in the Heights: Fostering Intimacy, Community, and Activism through Secular Leftist HymnodyEve McPhersonPart III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveIntroduction to Part III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveKay Norton13. Benefits of Community Singing for Cancer Patients, Survivors and CaregiversAmy Clements-Cort?s and Joyce Yip14. "It's about the Relationships": Epiphanies in SongleadingRoger Mantie and Glenn Marais15. "Everyone Can Sing": Class Choirs in 0th through 3rd Grades and the Significance of Community Singing for Pupils' Social Wellbeing and School EngagementLars Ole Bonde and Stefan Ingerslev16. Singing for Singing's Sake? Community Singing in Norwegian SchoolsAnne Haugland Balsnes17. "Scare Away the Dark": The Promotion of Singing to Create Post-Secondary Academic CommunitiesTrudi Wright18. Songs of Diversity: Three Case Studies of Community Singing, Identity, and Well-beingCatherine Birch, Ruth Currie, Wayne Dawson, and Stephen CliftPart IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureIntroduction to Part IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureKay Norton19. Community Choirs: The Challenges and Possibilities of InclusivityKayla Drudge and Anna E. Nekola20. Blend and Balance in Trans* Choral MusickingHolly Patch21. Peace and Harmony Prevailing: Masonic Singing in the USAndrew Schaeffer22. Singing Jewishness: The Musical Nostalgia of Jewish Congregational MelodiesRachel Adelstein23. Sacred Sounds and Social Justice: Singing the Spirituals in an Interracial and Multigenerational Community ChoirAleysia K. Whitmore and Marquisha L. Scott24. Women Singing in a Rural North Indian Community: A Case StudyKamlesh Singh, Suman Sigroha, and Bharti ShokeenPart V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationIntroduction to Part V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationEsther M. Morgan-Ellis25. A "Badge of Americanism": Group Singing as Political Expression in the Early United StatesLaura Lohman26. Singing at Ellis IslandDorothy Glick Maglione27. Community Singing in Flint and Baltimore, 1917-1920Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and Alan L. Spurgeon28. The Disney Chorus: Singing Along to the Studio's Forging of American Musical IdentityGregory Camp29. Spectacle and Empire: Imagined Community and the Crystal Palace Handel FestivalsCharles Edward McGuire30. Estonian singing traditions as an impetus for community building and expressing Estonian cultural heritage in AustraliaNaomi CooperPart VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumIntroduction to Part VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumKay Norton31. The Voices of Hope: A Traveling MiracleSusan Bishop32. Community Singing as Counterculture in a Women's PrisonAmanda Weber33. Border Transgressions: Song, Story, and CommunalEmilie Amrein and Andr? de Quadros34. Singing, Suffering, and Liberation in the Concentration Camps of the South African WarErin Johnson-Williams35. Music, Emotion, and Asylum: Wellbeing Mapped Through Choral SingingJane W. Davidson, Benjamin P. Leske, and Amanda E. Krause36. Selectively Staging the "Beloved Community": Sacred Harp Singing and Racial Politics in the Folk RevivalJesse P. KarlsbergPart VII. Singing and Political ActionIntroduction to Part VII. Singing and Political ActionEsther M. Morgan-Ellis37. New Firebombs in Old Bottles: Social Mobilization and Cultural Resonance of Protest SongsMarek Payerhin38. From "Preguntitas sobre Dios" to "Solo le pido a Dios": Protest and Piety in Latin American Community SingingMarcell Silva Steuernagel39. March for the Beloved: A Brief History of a South Korean Protest SongJarryn Ha40. "Cielito Lindo" or "Son de la Negra"?: Mariachi, Latinidad, and the Trump Administration Cameo Flores41. Youth, Group Singing, and Peacebuilding in Urban ZimbabweSimbarashe Gukurume42. The Role of Hate Songs among Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Fans: The Entrapping Loop of HatredMoshe Bensimon and Shiran HenPart VIII. New ParadigmsIntroduction to Part VIII. New ParadigmsKay Norton43. Music and Human Flourishing in Christian CommunitiesNathan Myrick, Benjamin Gessner, and Johnathan Alvarado 44. By the Rivers of Babylon: Re-membering Community through the Affordance of Congregational Singing in Greek Orthodox Churches in the United StatesAlexander K. Khalil45. Community Singing, the Church of England, and Spirituality: The Singer, the Song, and the SingingJune Boyce-Tillman46. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes of Entrainment in Communal SingingGuy Hayward47. From Art Music to Heart Music: The Place of the Composer in Community SingingFiona EvisonIndex
