Twenty-first-century monastic communities represent unique social environments in which music plays an integral part. This book examines the role of music in Catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian and neo-monastic communities in Britain and North America, engaging closely with communities of practice to provide a penetrating insight into the role of music in self-care and as a vector for identity construction on both individual and community levels. The author explores the essential role of music in community dynamics, the rationale for using instruments, the implications of both chant-based and freestyle composition, gender-related differences in musical activity, the role of dance ('music made visible') in community life, the commodification of monastic music, the 'Singing Nun' phenomenon and the role of music in established and emerging neo-monastic communities. The result is a comprehensive and compelling study of the agency of music in the construction and expression of personal and community identity.
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Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism
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- Cover
- Half-Title
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- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Conflict and reparation: The agency of music in modern monastic community dynamics
- 2 New directions: Encoding monastic identity through musical composition
- 3 Dead to the world: Negotiating personal and monastic identity through instrumental and recreational music
- 4 Dancing my prayer, dancing my self: Embodied and performed identity
- 5 A third gender?: Expression of gender identity in celibate monasticism through words and music
- 6 Buying into the monastic experience: Musical commodification
- 7 The Singing Nun phenomenon: Going solo on the world stage
- 8 Forging an Anglican musical identity
- 9 Fresh expressions: Music in neo-monastic communities
- 10 Conclusion
- Index
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