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Singing the Rite to Belong - Ritual, Music, and the New Irish (Hardcover)
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Singing the Rite to Belong - Ritual, Music, and the New Irish (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
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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.
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