Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality

Contents

• ListofIllustrations Prologue: Warming Up 1
• Introduction Choral beginnings: Inside the chapel and a home studio
• 1. 1 A biography of community- delineating the Sacred and the Heritage
• 1. 2 Establishing a musical cadence
• 1. 3 Framing choral music within Christian landscapes
• 1. 4 Aural Intentions: Summary of chapters 2 Making of the Indigenous
• 2. 1 Interrogating the Indigenous
• 2. 2 Emplacing the Indigenous
• 2. 3 Understanding Indigeneity, Inculturality and Decoloniality
• 2. 4 Music and Decoloniality
• 2. 5 Exploring the relationship between Indigeneity and Sacrality
• 2. 6 Indigenous Possibilities in curricula and performance: Field narratives
• 2. 7 Towards Sonic Interculturality 3 From Loft to the Recording Studio: Shillong Diaries
• 3. 1 What brings you to Shillong?
• Introduction
• 3. 2 Cusp of Sacrality, new Technologies and Creative Processes
• 3. 3 Choral Voices as ethnographic objects
• 3. 4 Short Historical Snippets about Christianity and Musicality in Khasi and Lushai Hills
• 3. 5 Discussing Genre, Intertextuality and Territorialisation
• 3. 6 Shillong Chamber Choir
• 3. 7 Repertoire- Medleys/Crossovers
• 3. 8 Beyond performance
• 3. 9 Aroha Choir
• 3. 10
• Conclusion 4 The Language of Music: Notes from a Goan Seminary
• 4. 1 Inhabiting the Seminary
• 4. 2 Outlining Goan Sacred Music
• 4. 3 A brief history of music and language in Goa
• 4. 4 Entering the field site
• 4. 5 Rachol Seminary
• 4. 6 Introducing the seminarians
• 4. 7 Syncretic musical experimentations in Goan Sacred music
• 4. 8 Goan Sacred music- Motets
• 4. 9
• Conclusion 5 Mapping Choral Voices: Role of People and Places
• 5. 1
• Introduction
• 5. 2 Hierarchization of voices
• 5. 3 Indigeneity and Christian Music Tradition
• 5. 4 Music Performance
• 5. 5
• Conclusion 6 Tutti: Concluding
• Section 6 .1 The Musical Clef Notating Certainty- Uncertainty
• 6. 2 Positing the Vocal Phrasing
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Appendix Documentary - Da Capo (in CD)
• Index