A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song
- Author: Bithell, Caroline
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Contents
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- About the companion website
- List of illustrations on the companion website
- List of video tracks on the companion website
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Natural Voice, Community Choirs and World Song: Setting the Scene
- Singing for Water
- The Bigger Picture: Definitions and Perspectives
- Singing in the Spotlight
- Research Contexts: Surveying the Literature
- Voice and Voicework
- Singing and Choirs
- Community Music and Community Music Therapy
- Ethnomusicology and World Musics in Education
- Musical Tourism
- Digging Deeper: Themes, Issues and Concepts
- Networks, Scenes and Movements
- Global Flows, Cosmopolitan Cultures and Transnational Connections
- World Music, Cultural Appropriation and Intercultural Engagement
- The Politics of Participation and the Art of Celebration
- Dancing in the Streets
- 2 In Search of the Natural Voice
- The Original Instrument
- Frankie Armstrong and the Natural Voice Practitioners' Network
- The NVPN Philosophy and Concepts of Music in Society
- The Giving Voice Project, Theatrical Roots and the Natural Voice in Performance
- Kristin Linklater and Michele George
- Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart
- Jerzy Grotowski and W?odzimierz Staniewski
- Giving Voice as Culture and Community
- A Meeting of Worlds: Giving Voice and the Natural Voice Network
- The Natural Voice in Perspective
- 3 Natural Voice Practitioners and their Journeys: Histories and Connections
- A Gathering of the Natural Voice Clan
- The Roads that Lead to the Natural Voice
- Frankie's Singing Journey
- Meetings with Voice Practitioners: Contexts and Continuities
- Musical Lives
- The Folk Connection
- The Political Connection
- The Theatre Connection
- The Classical Connection
- The Community Music Connection
- The Therapy Connection
- The Circle Dance, Summer Camp and Alternative Community Connection
- The World Music Connection
- The NVPN as Community of Practice
- 4 From Principles to Practice: The Culture of Natural Voice Choirs and Workshops
- If You Can Talk, You Can Sing
- Working with the Voice
- Preparing to Sing: The Function of Warm-up Exercises
- Arriving and Tuning In
- Voice, Body, Breath, Mind
- Paving the Way for Singing in Style
- How Times Have Changed
- The Aural Method: Teaching and Learning by Ear
- Repertoire: Songs from the Oral Tradition
- Resources for Teachers
- Expanding Horizons
- Of Learning and Living
- 5 Singing the Songs of Others
- A World of Song
- The Attraction of Songs from Elsewhere
- Entering New Sound Worlds
- Entering the Lives of Others
- Deeper Resonances: Lost Pasts and Present Yearnings
- The Politics of Unintelligibility
- Songs from Taize
- Text and Meaning in the Vernacular
- Vocables in Georgian Song
- Ours or Theirs? Of Boundaries and Crossings
- 6 Performing the Other: Appropriations and Transformations
- Framing Intercultural Encounters
- The African American Continuum and Gospel's Global Journeys
- Back to Africa
- Songs and Dances from South Africa
- Songs of the Aka and Baka
- Balkan Bridges
- Gifts from Georgia
- Authenticity, Alterity and Possession
- 7 Singing Communities: The World of Community Choirs
- Singing in the Streets
- Choirs, Choirs Everywhere
- Choirs in the British Media
- Amateur Choirs in Britain: Social and Political Legacies
- International Perspectives: Building Bridges through Song
- Locating the Community Choir: Worlds within Worlds
- The Choir in the Community and the Community in the Choir
- Singing, Health and Happiness
- The Place of Performance
- Opening Doors
- 8 Scenes from the Global Village: Singing Camps and Travels
- The Singing Village
- Reclaiming Paradise: Of Fields, Festivals and Foreign Shores
- Tapping into the Festival Current
- Theorising Travel and Tourism
- A Village in a Field: The Unicorn Natural Voice Camp
- The Unicorn Experience
- The Unicorn Repertoire
- The Unicorn Community
- Choirs on the Move
- The Village on the Move: Village Harmony's Overseas Camps
- Village Harmony in Corsica
- Village Harmony in Bosnia
- Village Harmony and other Travels in Georgia
- Of Refashioning Identities and Living Differently
- 9 The Voice of the Future
- Gathering the Threads
- Fallacies and Other Truths
- A Quiet Revolution
- A River of Music
- Appendix: NVPN Philosophy and Working Principles
- References
- Index