کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1128400 954887 2012 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Singing the gospel: Using musical practices to build religious and racial communities
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر هنر و علوم انسانی (عمومی)
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Singing the gospel: Using musical practices to build religious and racial communities
چکیده انگلیسی

How can musical traditions be used to create meaningful social bonds? In an ethnographic study of an African-American church, I examine the process by which the religious and musical practice of gospel singing creates social ties. Bonds are built not just in ritual moments of worship, but in “backstage” moments when vocal techniques are taught, shared understandings of religious lyrics are nurtured, and a “worshipful” subjectivity is cultivated. Gospel choir singing binds youth to the church and symbolically to the local and global black community. I use the concept of “practice” to bring to the fore the social contexts in which the act of singing takes place.


► Ethnographic study of a black church's youth gospel choirs.
► Practice theory illuminates the social contexts in which singing takes place.
► Gospel choir singing binds youth to church and local and global black communities.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Poetics - Volume 40, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 278–298
نویسندگان
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