Outdoor singing in modern Britain a sensory and emotional history
"This Element brings together historical sources and contemporary experiences to explore the interplay between singing, sociality, body, and meaning in the English landscape over the past century. It explores the connections between air and song and between singing and movement, through the con...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2026
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This Element brings together historical sources and contemporary experiences to explore the interplay between singing, sociality, body, and meaning in the English landscape over the past century. It explores the connections between air and song and between singing and movement, through the context of the early twentieth century open-air recreation movement. This is supplemented by recent literature on singing and wellbeing, and the experiences of a contemporary walking choir captured via interviews in the field. The authors argue that outdoor singing has been part of co-constructed soundscapes of the modern English leisure landscape, and ask what this meant for those who participated in collective open-air singing and rambling. They explore how open-air singing connected with conceptions of the countryside, with a sense of fellow-feeling, and how this might have both reified and challenged normative ways of being in landscapes"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1009615408 9781009615402 9781009615365 100961536X |
| ISSN: | 2632-1068 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009615402 |