Queering Freedom: Music, Identity and Spirituality: (Anthology with Perspectives from Over Ten Countries)

ISBN-13: 9781788745086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 376 str.

Karin Hendricks; June Boyce-Tillman

Opis

This book is intended to challenge the status quo of music learning and experience by intersecting various musical topics with discussions of spirituality and queer studies. The book reaches an international audience, with invited authors from around the world who represent the voices and perspectives of over ten countries.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: June Boyce-Tillman: The Myths We Live By - Bertram J. Schirr: The Body We Sing: Reclaiming of the Queer Materiality of Vocal Bodies - Ockie Vermeulen: En Route to Inclusive Language Use in the Afrikaans Church Hymn: The Heterosexual White Man as God - Karin S. Hendricks: Schubert and Ambiguity: The Art of Embracing Death - Jerry Pergolesi: Nothing to Say: Anarchy and the Subversive Potential of Silence in the Music of John Cage - Koji Matsunobu: Overcoming Masculine Spirituality: Critical Analysis of Japanese Music Practice - J. Mike Kohfeld: Gender and Sexual Diversity in Santería - Catherine Pestano: Queering the Space: Community Music Work with LGBTQ Groups - Amelia Pitt-Brooke/Hussein Janmohamed: Cor Flammae and Queering Choral Music: A Mixed-Voice Canadian Perspective - André de Quadros: Nurturing Vulnerability in Imprisoned Manhood: A Spirit Journey - André de Quadros: What's a Music Teacher to Do? An Exploration of Opportunities and Obstacles to Personhood and Music Within and Towards the Muslim World - Danielle M. Cozart Steele/Amanda M. Rice: «Every Person's Voice Matters»: The Lived Theology of a Teacher of Transgender Singers - Karin S. Hendricks: Gaga Spirituality - Tawnya D. Smith: Belonging in Moments: A «Becoming-Out» Ethnodrama As Told Through Spiritual, Social, and Musical Reflections - Evan Kent: Thrice Blessed: Jewish, Gay, and a cantor - Tawnya D. Smith/Karin S. Hendricks/Kerr Mesner: Throbbing Dissonance: An Ethnodrama on Identity, Experienced Through Cello «Wolf Tone Theory» - Stephanie A. Budwey/Sean R. Glenn: Tempered Bodies, Tempered Voices: Giving Voice to Queer Creation - Kerr Mesner: Passagio: Learning to Sing an Unfinished Song.

O autorze

Karin S. Hendricks is Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music and Assistant Professor of Music, Music Education at Boston University. A regular presenter of research papers and research-to-practice workshops, Karin has served as an orchestra clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States and abroad. She has served in a variety of local, national, and international leadership positions. She conducts research in social psychology and social justice, with a particular focus on student motivation and musical engagement. She has published dozens of papers in peer-reviewed and professional journals and books, and is author of the books Performance Anxiety Strategies and Compassionate Music Teaching.

June Boyce-Tillman read music at Oxford University and is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester and Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. She has published widely in the area of music and education and spirituality, most recently Experiencing Music and Spirituality and Music Education. Her doctoral research into children's musical development has been translated into five languages. She has written about and organized events in the area of interfaith dialogue using music. She is a composer and conductor concerned with radically inclusive musical events and an international performer, especially on the work of Hildegard of Bingen. She is a hymn writer and an ordained Anglican priest. She is artistic convenor of the Winchester Centre for the Arts as Wellbeing and Convenor of the Tavener Centre for Music and Spirituality.