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1 online resource |
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Ebscodelete 3-6-2020
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Ebscodelete 2020-7-30
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| Contents |
Introduction 1 -- 1 The Natural Voice, Community Choirs, and World Song: Setting the Scene 10 -- Singing for Water 10 -- The Bigger Picture: Difinitions and Perspectives 16 -- Singing in the Spotlight 19 -- Research Contexts: Surveying the Literature 21 -- Voice and Voicework 21 -- Singing and Choirs 22 -- Community Music and Community Music Therapy 25 -- Ethnomusicology and World Musics in Education 28 -- Musical Tourism 30 -- Digging Deeper: Themes, Issues, and Concepts 30 -- Network, Scenes, and Movements 31 -- Global Flows, Cosmopolitan Cultures, and Transnational Connections 33 -- World Music, Cultural Appropriation, and Intercultural Engagement 37 -- The Politics of Participation and the Art of Celebration 39 -- Dancing in the Streets 42 -- 2 In Search of the Natural Voice 45 -- The Original Instrument 45 -- Frankie Armstrong and the Natural Voice Practitioners' Network 47 -- The NVPN Philosophy and Concepts of Music in Society 47 -- The Giving Voice Project, Theatrical Roots, and the Natural Voice in Performance 55 -- Kristin Linklater and Michele George 56 -- Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart 58 -- Jerzy Grotowski and Wlodzimierz Staniewski 60 -- Giving Voice as Culture and Community 61 -- A Meeting of Worlds: Giving Voice and the Natural Voice Network 63 -- Natural Voice in Perspective 65 -- 3 Natural Voice Practitioners and Their Journeys: Histories and Connections 69 -- A Gathering of the Natural Voice Clan 69 -- The Roads That Lead to the Natural Voice 72 -- Frankie's Singing Journey 73 -- Meetings with Voice Practitioners: Contexts and Continuities 78 -- Musical Lives 79 -- The Folk Connection 81 -- The Political Connection 83 -- The Theatre Connection 84 -- The Classical Connection 86 -- The Community Music Connection 87 -- The Therapy Connection 89 -- The Circle Dance, Summer Camp, and Alternative Community Connection 92 -- The World Music Connection 96 -- The NVPN as Community of Practice 99 -- 4 From Principles to Practice: The Culture of Natural Voice Choirs and Workshops 107 -- If You Can Talk, You Can Sing 107 -- Working with the Voice 109 -- Preparing to Sing: The Function of Warm-Up Exercises 110 -- Arriving and Tuning In 111 -- Voice, Body, Breath, Mind 113 -- Paving the Way for Singing in Style 116 -- How Times Have Changed 118 -- The Aural Method: Teaching and Learning by Ear 120 -- Repertoire: Songs from the Oral Tradition 123 -- Resources for Teachers 127 -- Expanding Horizons 130 -- Of Learning and Living 134 -- 5 Singing the Songs of Others 140 -- A World of Song 140 -- The Attraction of Songs from Elsewhere 142 -- Entering New Sound Worlds 143 -- Entering the Lives of Others 147 -- Deeper Resonances: Lost Pasts and Present Yearnings 149 -- The Politics of Unintelligibility 152 -- Songs from Taizé 155 -- Text and Meaning in the Vernacular 157 -- Vocables in Georgian Song 158 -- Ours or Theirs? Of Boundaries and Crossings 160 -- 6 Performing the Other: Appropriations and Transformations 165 -- Framing Intercultural Encounters 165 -- The African American Continuum and Gospel's Global Journeys 169 -- Back to Africa 173 -- Songs and Dances from South Africa 178 -- Songs of the Aka and Baka 181 -- Balkan Bridges 184 -- Gifts from Georgia 189 -- Authenticity, Alterity, and Possession 200 -- 7 Singing Communities: The World of Community Choirs 206 -- Singing in the Streets 206 -- Choirs, Choirs Everywhere 209 -- Choirs in the British Media 209 -- Amateur Choirs in Britain: Social and Political Legacies 214 -- International Perspectives: Building Bridges through Song 217 -- Locating the Community Choir: Worlds within Worlds 219 -- The Choir in the Community and the Community in the Choir 223 -- Singing, Health, and Happiness 233 -- The Place of Performance 241 -- Opening Doors 247 -- 8 Scenes from the Global Village: Singing Camps and Travels 252 -- The Singing Village 252 -- Reclaiming Paradise: Of Fields, Festivals, and Foreign Shores 256 -- Tapping into the Festival Current 257 -- Theorising Travel and Tourism 259 -- A Village in a Field: The Unicorn Natural Voice Camp 263 -- The Unicorn Experience 264 -- The Unicorn Repertoire 265 -- The Unicorn Community 270 -- Choirs on the Move 273 -- The Village on the Move: Village Harmony's Overseas Camps 276 -- Village Harmony in Corsica 278 -- Village Harmony in Bosnia 281 -- Village Harmony and Other Travels in Georgia 284 -- Of Refashioning Identities and Living Differently 287 -- 9 The Voice of the Future 294 -- Gathering the Threads 294 -- Fallacies and Other Truths 299 -- A Quiet Revolution 308 -- A River of Music 312 |
| Summary |
Caroline Bithell explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that 'everyone can sing', the movement is distinguished from other choral movements by its emphasis on oral transmission and its eclectic repertoire of songs from across the globe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Natural voice singing.
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Singing -- Social aspects
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Lyrics.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
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Natural voice singing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199354566 |
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0199354561 |
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9780199354573 |
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019935457X |
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9780199354580 |
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0199354588 |
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0199354545 |
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9780199354542 |
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0199354553 |
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9780199354559 |
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