Chorus and community
By: edited by Karen Ahlquist.
Contributors: Ahlquist, Karen, 1948-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780252030376; 9780252072840
Subjects: Choral singing -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: A communal art. We are from different makabila, but we live here as one family : the musical performance of community in an East African kwaya / Gregory Barz ; Putting Decatur on the map : choral music and community in an Illinois city / Melinda Russell ; Singing on the steppes : Kornelius Neufeld and choral music among the Mennonites of Russia / Wesley Berg; title: Grass-roots aesthetics. Chord and discord : singing together in a Sardinian brotherhood / Bernard Lortat-Jacob, translated and edited by Marc Benamou ; Music and morality : John Curwen's tonic sol-fa, the Temperance Movement, and the oratorios of Edward Elgar / Charles Edward McGuire ; Accounting for taste : choral circles in early Soviet workers' clubs / Amy Nelson; title: Minority identities. Spiritual singing brings in the money : the Fisk Jubilee Singers tour Holland in 1877 / Helen Metzelaar ; The new Negro choral legacy of Hall Johnson / Marva Griffin Carter ; From Communism to Yiddishism : the reinvention of the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus of New York City / Marion S. Jacobson; title: The activist chorus. We're singin' for the union : the ILGWU Chorus in Pennsylvania coal country, 1947-2000 / Kenneth C. Wolensky ; The voice empowered : harmonic convergence of music and politics in the GLBT choral movement / Jill Strachan; title: In the Western tradition. Men and women of the chorus : music, governance, and social models in nineteenth-century German-speaking Europe / Karen Ahlquist ; Symphonic choirs : understanding the borders of professionalism / Rosalynd Smith.