Outdoor singing in modern Britain a sensory and emotional history Abbi Flint, Clare Hickman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flint, Abbi, author.

Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities), author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses

Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses 2632-1068

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choral singing--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Choral singing.

Choral singing--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"This Element brings together historical sources and contemporary experiences to explore the interplay between singing, sociality, body, and meaning in the English landscape over the past century. It explores the connections between air and song and between singing and movement, through the context of the early twentieth century open-air recreation movement. This is supplemented by recent literature on singing and wellbeing, and the experiences of a contemporary walking choir captured via interviews in the field. The authors argue that outdoor singing has been part of co-constructed soundscapes of the modern English leisure landscape, and ask what this meant for those who participated in collective open-air singing and rambling. They explore how open-air singing connected with conceptions of the countryside, with a sense of fellow-feeling, and how this might have both reified and challenged normative ways of being in landscapes"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Sensing and feeling the landscape via the body

Fellow-feeling through song

Relating to place

Contemporary connections and resonances

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Other Format:

Print version Flint, Abbi Outdoor singing in modern Britain

ISBN:

1009615408

9781009615402

OCLC:

1552123314

Access Restriction:

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