Singing the rite to belong : music, ritual, and the new Irish /

Two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical experience in Ireland inform Helen Phelan's investigation of the singing voice in ritual performance. She examines diverse ritual practices including community-based festivals, children's carnivals, women's choirs, university-based...

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Main Author: Phelan, Helen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Series:Oxford ritual studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical experience in Ireland inform Helen Phelan's investigation of the singing voice in ritual performance. She examines diverse ritual practices including community-based festivals, children's carnivals, women's choirs, university-based ritual laboratories, rituals of the established Irish Catholic churches, as well as those of new religious communities against the backdrop of economic, social, religious, and cultural changes in twenty-first century Ireland.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190672249
0190672242
0190672234
9780190672232