Social History of Singing

[randall smith]

Can anyone give me a hint as to where I might find a good book or something
on the net about the social history of singing? As in why we do it, what is
it's political value - now and in the past,etc etc etc.

Thanks,

L

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[Neil Fisher]

In article <HCrM2.2252$dF4.9148169@WReNphoon1>, randall smith
<rag...@hotmail.com> writes

>Can anyone give me a hint as to where I might find a good book or something
>on the net about the social history of singing? As in why we do it, what is
>it's political value - now and in the past,etc etc etc.
>
>Thanks,
>
>L

Anthony Arblaster's _Politics in Opera_ makes quite interesting reading,
although most of it is full of lies...
--
Neil

[Karen Mercedes]

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, randall smith wrote:

> Can anyone give me a hint as to where I might find a good book or something
> on the net about the social history of singing? As in why we do it, what is
> it's political value - now and in the past,etc etc etc.

Sacred Harp Singing: History & Tradition
http://www.his.com/~sabol/SHhistory.html

William Byrd: Why Learne to Sing?
http://www.spiritsound.com/fing.html

A Brief History of Singing
http://www.lawrence.edu/~koopmajo/

Congregational Singing
http://www.southavencoc.org/Articles/sing.html

The Singing Voice
http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/EMMA/MWM/hartsng.htm

The Singing of Psalms
http://members.aol.com/RSISBELL/psalms1.html

Singing in the Holy Spirit
http://founders.org/FJ08/article4.html

Singing as a Spiritual Discipline
http://www.innerx.net/~fpc/docs/sermons/se981011.htm

Some books:

William Henderson: EARLY HISTORY OF SINGING (AMS Press)

Leslie Dunn & Nancy Jones, eds.: Embodied Voices: Representing Female
Vocality in Western Culture (New Perspectives in Music History and
Criticism) (Cambridge Univ. Press)

Brian Longhurst: POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY (Polity Press)

Robert Stebbins: THE BARBERSHOP SINGER: INSIDE THE SOCIAL WORLD OF A
MUSICAL HOBBY (Univ. of Toronto Press)

Robert Witkin: ADORNO ON MUSIC (Routledge)

John Blacking: MUSIC, CULTURE, & EXPERIENCE: SELECTED PAPERS OF JOHN
BLACKING (CHICAGO STUDIES IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY) (Univ. of Chicago Press)

Anthony Storr: MUSIC AND THE MIND (Free Press)

David Hargreaves, Adrian North, eds.: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(Oxford Univ. Press)

Jon Roar Bjokvold: THE MUSE WITHIN: CREATIVITY AND COMMUNICATION, SONG AND
PLAY FROM CHILDHOOD THROUGH MATURITY

William McCarthy: THE BALLAD MATRIX: PERSONALITY, MILIEU, AND THE ORAL
TRADITION (Indiana Univ. Press)

Steven Weitzman: SONG AND STORY IN BIBLICAL NARRATIVE (Indiana Univ.
Press)

Fabre d'Olivet: Music Explained as Science and Art and Considered in its
Analogical Relations to Religious Mysteries, Ancient Mythology, and the
History of the World (Inner Traditions International, Ltd.)

Curt Sachs: THE RISE OF MUSIC IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, EAST AND WEST

Claude Calame: CHORUSES OF YOUNG WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE: Their
Morphology, Religious Role, and social Function (Rowman & Littlefield)

Johannes Quasten: Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
(Pastoral Press)

Lew Paxton Price: The Oldest Magic: the prehistory, ancient history,
nature of, and early influence of music

Alfred Sendrey: MUSIC IN THE SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF ANTIQUITY

Warren Anderson: MUSIC AND MUSICIANS IN ANCIENT GREECE (Cornell Univ.
Press)

Max Paddison: ADORNO'S AESTHETICS OF MUSIC (Cambridge Univ. Press)

Kurt Blaukopf: MUSICAL LIFE IN A CHANGING SOCIETY (Timber Press)

KM
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[Ethel Jean Saltz]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:59:58 -0500, Karen Mercedes <dal...@radix.net>
wrote:

>The Singing of Psalms
>http://members.aol.com/RSISBELL/psalms1.html

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In fact, the word "music" comes from "muse" and this meant poetry
which was considered a separate art form in ancient times. So Psalms
must be a natural foundation for singing in Western music IMHO.

In fact, I think that learning the Hebrew Language using Psalms as a
vehicle in the university is a very socially uniting ideal.

be-Ahavah ve-Shalom, Queen of Creekbend,
MAC-NIET-SPIN-GAL,Khai Y'all, C-O-H-N, ADTR, 0390A.G.,
Trinity=Torah(Ethics)+Ne'eveem(Sociology)
+Ketuveem(Multimedia)
Trinity=Periodic Table of Elements
+Direct Current Circuits+Electromagnetic Spectrum
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan/Miami Platform
mailto:nie...@airmail.net

[botkin]

read about the Baltic states resistance to Russian culture through
songfests (particularly Estonia).

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