
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, and festivals. Voice and genre emerge as social objects annotated by tradition, nostalgia, and innovation. Piety literally and metaphorically shapes the Christian lifeworld, predominantly those belonging to the Presbyterian and Catholic denominations. Indigeneity structures the political and cultural motifs in the making of the Christian musical traditions. Located at the intersection of Sociology, Anthropology, and Ethnomusicology, the choral voices emplace 'affect' and the visual-aural dispatch. Thus, sonic spectrum holds space for indigenous and global musicality. This ethnographic work will be useful for scholars researching music and sound studies, religious studies, cultural anthropology, and sociology of India.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Prologue: Warming Up
- 1 Introduction: Choral Beginnings: Inside the Chapel and a Home Studio
- 2 Making of the Indigenous
- 3 From Loft to the Recording Studio: Shillong Diaries
- 4 The Language of Music: Notes from a Goan Seminary
- 5 Mapping Choral Voices: The Role of People and Places
- 6 Tutti: Concluding Section
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Documentary—Da Capo
- Index
- Copyright