Choral Voices

<i>Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality</i> is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches seminaries schools auditoriums classrooms reality TV shows and festivals. Voice and genre emerge as social objects annotated by tradition nostalgia and innovation. Piety literally and metaphorically shapes the Christian lifeworld predominantly those belonging to the Presbyterian and Catholic denominations. Indigeneity structures the political and cultural motifs in the making of the Christian musical traditions. Located at the intersection of Sociology Anthropology and Ethnomusicology the choral voices emplace 'affect' and the visual-aural dispatch. Thus sonic spectrum holds space for indigenous and global musicality.<br/><br/>This ethnographic work will be useful for scholars researching music and sound studies religious studies cultural anthropology and sociology of India.