TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarah Morgan
AU  - June Boyce-Tillman
PY  - 2016
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2296-164X
SN  - 9783035308440
TI  - A River Rather Than a Road
T2  - The Community Choir as Spiritual Experience
DO  - 10.3726/b10390
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053555
N2  - This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction to the sustaining of community choirs, including the use of English folksong material in this context. Some useful arrangements of folk songs are included. Community singing events are described with helpful advice on setting up and managing these. It presents a useful model of the range of skills necessary for aspiring community choir leaders. This is linked with the formation of a community that contains spiritual elements; this is theorized in relation to the role of the parish church in communal singing. It also discusses the two aesthetics of choral singing and the relationship between oral and literate traditions. The book arises from the engagement of the University of Winchester in partnership with the local community, which is theorized.
LA  - English
ER  -