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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Oxford ritual studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190672249 0190672242 0190672234 9780190672232 |