Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Sebanti Chatterjee)

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Frederick Noronha

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Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality
Sebanti Chatterjee (Author)  
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Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, and festivals. Voice and género emerge as social objects annotated by tradición, nostalgia, and innovation. Piety literally and metaphorically shapes the Christian lifeworld, predominantly those belonging to the Presbyterian and Catholic denominations. Indigeneity structures the political and cultural motifs in the making of the Christian musical traditions. Located at the intersection of Sociology, Anthropology, and Ethnomusicology, the coral voices emplace 'affect' and the visual-aural dispatch. Entonces, sonic spectrum holds space for indigenous and global musicality.

Table of 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
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Sandra Lobo

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This book sounds so interesting. 
Ms Chatterjee describes herself as an anthropologist/sociologist/ethnomusicologist. 
It's not available to buy from the US.

Is there a reason she chose choirs in Shillong and Goa to research.I didn't realize there was a connection.

I do know from Jesuits in the North East that neighboring  Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya have some of the most talented choirs in the world singing in powerful harmony with very little musical training.



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Virginia Brás Gomes

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