Singing the Rite to Belong

Ritual, Music, and the New Irish

Helen Phelan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-067223-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Helen Phelan is Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. A singer and ritual studies scholar, she is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work on singing and sustained social integration with new migrant communities in Ireland over the last two decades. Her singing interests span medieval chant to contemporary ritual vocal song while her publications are primarily in the areas of ritual studies, music education philosophy and arts practice research.

Introduction
Becoming a Ritual Singer
Singing and Belonging
Book Structure
Laus Perennis

Religious Rituals

Chapter One
Borrowed Belonging: Singing and "Resounding" in the Wrong Ritual Space
Introduction
Migration and the New Irish
The Limerick Experience
The Russian Orthodox Community in the Augustinian Church, Limerick
The New Revelation Pentecostal Church in St. Michael's Church of Ireland, Limerick
Resonance as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
Spheres of Resonance
A Pilgrim People
Pilgrimage and Music
Sonic authority
Conclusion

Chapter Two
Repertoires of Belonging: Embodying "Bothness" through Musical Repertoires
Introduction
St. John's Catholic Cathedral and St. Augustine's Church, Limerick
Embodying "Bothness"
Somatics as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
Singing and Ideology
Gregorian Chant and the Modern Liturgical Movement
A Modern and Medieval "Enchantment"
The Pastoral Turn
The Irish Story
Conclusion

II Educational Rituals

Chapter Three
Finding Your Own Voice: Mythologizing and Ritualizing Belonging at the Irish World Academy
Introduction
The Irish World Academy
The Quest for "Imbas"
The Ritual Pit
Performance as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
Performing the Academy
Conclusion

Chapter Four
Singing Belonging in the Ritual Lab
Introduction
Entering the Ritual Lab
Ritual Leaps of Faith
Ritual Lab and Singing
Ritual Criticism, Memory and Ethical Soundings
Temporality as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
Ritual, Time and Space
Conclusion

III Civic and Community-Based Rituals

Chapter Five
Singing Hospitality in Community-based Ritual
Introduction
Anáil Dé / The Breath of God
Tacitness as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
Comhcheol Women's Community Choir
World Carnival
Conclusion

Chapter Six
Singing the Rite to Belong: Baptismal Rituals and the Irish Citizenship Referendum
Introduction
Backdrop to the Citizenship Referendum
The Limerick Story
Baptizing, Singing and Belonging
Somatic Community
Sonic Community
Conclusion

Conclusion
The Power of Singing
Singing the Rite to Belong
The Weakness of Singing the Rite to Belong

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Ritual Studies Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-067223-4 / 0190672234
ISBN-13	978-0-19-067223-2 / 9780190672232
Zustand	Neuware