Singing the Rite to Belong

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Singing the Rite to Belong is written by Helen Phelan and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190672250 (ISBN 10) and 9780190672256 (ISBN 13).

Two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical experience in Ireland inform Helen Phelan's investigation of the singing voice in ritual performance. She examines diverse ritual practices including community-based festivals, children's carnivals, women's choirs, university-based ritual laboratories, rituals of the established Irish Catholic churches, as well as those of new religious communities against the backdrop of economic, social, religious, and cultural changes in twenty-first century Ireland.