Singing the Rite to Belong: Ritual, Music, and the New Irish

Contents

• Introduction
• Becoming a Ritual Singer
• Singing and Belonging
• Book Structure
• Laus Perennis
• Religious Rituals
• Chapter One
• Borrowed Belonging: Singing and Resounding in the Wrong Ritual Space
• Introduction
• Migration and the New Irish
• The Limerick Experience
• The Russian Orthodox Community in the Augustinian Church, Limerick
• The New Revelation Pentecostal Church in St. Michael's Church of Ireland, Limerick
• Resonance as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
• Spheres of Resonance
• A Pilgrim People
• Pilgrimage and Music
• Sonic authority
• Conclusion
• Chapter Two
• Repertoires of Belonging: Embodying Bothness through Musical Repertoires
• Introduction
• St. John's Catholic Cathedral and St. Augustine's Church, Limerick
• Embodying Bothness
• Somatics as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
• Singing and Ideology
• Gregorian Chant and the Modern Liturgical Movement
• A Modern and Medieval Enchantment
• The Pastoral Turn
• The Irish Story
• Conclusion
• II Educational Rituals
• Chapter Three
• Finding Your Own Voice: Mythologizing and Ritualizing Belonging at the Irish World Academy
• Introduction
• The Irish World Academy
• The Quest for Imbas
• The Ritual Pit
• Performance as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
• Performing the Academy
• Conclusion
• Chapter Four
• Singing Belonging in the Ritual Lab
• Introduction
• Entering the Ritual Lab
• Ritual Leaps of Faith
• Ritual Lab and Singing
• Ritual Criticism, Memory and Ethical Soundings
• Temporality as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
• Ritual, Time and Space
• Conclusion
• III Civic and Community-Based Rituals
• Chapter Five
• Singing Hospitality in Community-based Ritual
• Introduction
• Anail De / The Breath of God
• Tacitness as a Key Element of Sung Belonging
• Comhcheol Women's Community Choir
• World Carnival
• Conclusion
• Chapter Six
• Singing the Rite to Belong: Baptismal Rituals and the Irish Citizenship Referendum
• Introduction
• Backdrop to the Citizenship Referendum
• The Limerick Story
• Baptizing, Singing and Belonging
• Somatic Community
• Sonic Community
• Conclusion
• Conclusion
• The Power of Singing
• Singing the Rite to Belong
• The Weakness of Singing the Rite to Belong