Esther M. Morgan-Ellis is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Georgia, where she also directs the orchestra and coaches the old-time string band. She studies participatory music-making traditions of the past and present, employing both historical and ethnographic methodologies. She has published on the American community singing movement, mediated sing-alongs, Sacred Harp singing, old-time string band music, and music history pedagogy, and is also active as a cellist, fiddler and fiddle teacher, and singer.Kay Norton is Professor of Musicology at Arizona State University. Her 2016 monograph, Singing and Wellbeing: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Proof (2016) incorporates threads from musicology, anthropology, philosophy, medical history, psychology of music, and neuroscience to argue the centrality of the melodious voice in human experience. Concurrently with that ongoing work, she presents and publishes on US American sacred music. She teaches researchmethodologies, gender in music, music in human experience, and nineteenth-century musical aesthetics, and is a lifelong community singer.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: Singing as Community, Singing into Community, and Growing the Singing CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis and Kay NortonPart I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityIntroduction to Part I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis1. Mediated Community SingingEsther M. Morgan-Ellis2. Selling with Singalongs: Community Singing as Advertising in Cinema, Radio and TelevisionMalcolm Cook3. Singing into a Smartphone: The Persuasive Affordances of Karaoke and Lip-Syncing AppsByrd McDaniel4. What the Pandemic Couldn't Take Away: Group Singing Benefits That Survived Going OnlineKay Norton5. Virtual choirs and issues of community choral practiceCole Bendall6. Community Singing in the Age of Coronavirus: The Case of Collegiate A CappellaJoshua S. DuchanPart II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesIntroduction to Part II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesEsther M. Morgan-Ellis7. "Some Old Remembered Song": Music at the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, 1825-1840Glen W. Hicks8. New Music for Old Prayers: Identity Construction and Community Building in Zimbabwean Black Jewish SynagoguesLior Shragg9. Vernacular Christmas Carol Singing in the Southern Pennines of EnglandIan Russell10. "Take Me Out" to "Sweet Caroline": Collective Singing in the BallparkMatthew W. Mihalka11. "Singing Their Heads Off": Sing-along Behavior in the Nightlife of Northern EnglandAlisun Pawley12. Brigadoon in the Heights: Fostering Intimacy, Community, and Activism through Secular Leftist HymnodyEve McPhersonPart III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveIntroduction to Part III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveKay Norton13. Benefits of Community Singing for Cancer Patients, Survivors and CaregiversAmy Clements-Cortés and Joyce Yip14. "It's about the Relationships": Epiphanies in SongleadingRoger Mantie and Glenn Marais15. "Everyone Can Sing": Class Choirs in 0th through 3rd Grades and the Significance of Community Singing for Pupils' Social Wellbeing and School EngagementLars Ole Bonde and Stefan Ingerslev16. Singing for Singing's Sake? Community Singing in Norwegian SchoolsAnne Haugland Balsnes17. "Scare Away the Dark": The Promotion of Singing to Create Post-Secondary Academic CommunitiesTrudi Wright18. Songs of Diversity: Three Case Studies of Community Singing, Identity, and Well-beingCatherine Birch, Ruth Currie, Wayne Dawson, and Stephen CliftPart IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureIntroduction to Part IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureKay Norton19. Community Choirs: The Challenges and Possibilities of InclusivityKayla Drudge and Anna E. Nekola20. Blend and Balance in Trans* Choral MusickingHolly Patch21. Peace and Harmony Prevailing: Masonic Singing in the USAndrew Schaeffer22. Singing Jewishness: The Musical Nostalgia of Jewish Congregational MelodiesRachel Adelstein23. Sacred Sounds and Social Justice: Singing the Spirituals in an Interracial and Multigenerational Community ChoirAleysia K. Whitmore and Marquisha L. Scott24. Women Singing in a Rural North Indian Community: A Case StudyKamlesh Singh, Suman Sigroha, and Bharti ShokeenPart V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationIntroduction to Part V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationEsther M. Morgan-Ellis25. A "Badge of Americanism": Group Singing as Political Expression in the Early United StatesLaura Lohman26. Singing at Ellis IslandDorothy Glick Maglione27. Community Singing in Flint and Baltimore, 1917-1920Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and Alan L. Spurgeon28. The Disney Chorus: Singing Along to the Studio's Forging of American Musical IdentityGregory Camp29. Spectacle and Empire: Imagined Community and the Crystal Palace Handel FestivalsCharles Edward McGuire30. Estonian singing traditions as an impetus for community building and expressing Estonian cultural heritage in AustraliaNaomi CooperPart VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumIntroduction to Part VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumKay Norton31. The Voices of Hope: A Traveling MiracleSusan Bishop32. Community Singing as Counterculture in a Women's PrisonAmanda Weber33. Border Transgressions: Song, Story, and CommunalEmilie Amrein and André de Quadros34. Singing, Suffering, and Liberation in the Concentration Camps of the South African WarErin Johnson-Williams35. Music, Emotion, and Asylum: Wellbeing Mapped Through Choral SingingJane W. Davidson, Benjamin P. Leske, and Amanda E. Krause36. Selectively Staging the "Beloved Community": Sacred Harp Singing and Racial Politics in the Folk RevivalJesse P. KarlsbergPart VII. Singing and Political ActionIntroduction to Part VII. Singing and Political ActionEsther M. Morgan-Ellis37. New Firebombs in Old Bottles: Social Mobilization and Cultural Resonance of Protest SongsMarek Payerhin38. From "Preguntitas sobre Dios" to "Solo le pido a Dios": Protest and Piety in Latin American Community SingingMarcell Silva Steuernagel39. March for the Beloved: A Brief History of a South Korean Protest SongJarryn Ha40. "Cielito Lindo" or "Son de la Negra"?: Mariachi, Latinidad, and the Trump Administration Cameo Flores41. Youth, Group Singing, and Peacebuilding in Urban ZimbabweSimbarashe Gukurume42. The Role of Hate Songs among Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Fans: The Entrapping Loop of HatredMoshe Bensimon and Shiran HenPart VIII. New ParadigmsIntroduction to Part VIII. New ParadigmsKay Norton43. Music and Human Flourishing in Christian CommunitiesNathan Myrick, Benjamin Gessner, and Johnathan Alvarado 44. By the Rivers of Babylon: Re-membering Community through the Affordance of Congregational Singing in Greek Orthodox Churches in the United StatesAlexander K. Khalil45. Community Singing, the Church of England, and Spirituality: The Singer, the Song, and the SingingJune Boyce-Tillman46. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes of Entrainment in Communal SingingGuy Hayward47. From Art Music to Heart Music: The Place of the Composer in Community SingingFiona EvisonIndex

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Georgia, where she also directs the orchestra and coaches the old-time string band. She studies participatory music-making traditions of the past and present, employing both historical and ethnographic methodologies. She has published on the American community singing movement, mediated sing-alongs, Sacred Harp singing, old-time string band music, and music history pedagogy, and is also active as a cellist, fiddler and fiddle teacher, and singer.Kay Norton is Professor of Musicology at Arizona State University. Her 2016 monograph, Singing and Wellbeing: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Proof (2016) incorporates threads from musicology, anthropology, philosophy, medical history, psychology of music, and neuroscience to argue the centrality of the melodious voice in human experience. Concurrently with that ongoing work, she presents and publishes on US American sacred music. She teaches researchmethodologies, gender in music, music in human experience, and nineteenth-century musical aesthetics, and is a lifelong community singer.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: Singing as Community, Singing into Community, and Growing the Singing CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis and Kay NortonPart I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityIntroduction to Part I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis1. Mediated Community SingingEsther M. Morgan-Ellis2. Selling with Singalongs: Community Singing as Advertising in Cinema, Radio and TelevisionMalcolm Cook3. Singing into a Smartphone: The Persuasive Affordances of Karaoke and Lip-Syncing AppsByrd McDaniel4. What the Pandemic Couldn't Take Away: Group Singing Benefits That Survived Going OnlineKay Norton5. Virtual choirs and issues of community choral practiceCole Bendall6. Community Singing in the Age of Coronavirus: The Case of Collegiate A CappellaJoshua S. DuchanPart II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesIntroduction to Part II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesEsther M. Morgan-Ellis7. "Some Old Remembered Song": Music at the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, 1825-1840Glen W. Hicks8. New Music for Old Prayers: Identity Construction and Community Building in Zimbabwean Black Jewish SynagoguesLior Shragg9. Vernacular Christmas Carol Singing in the Southern Pennines of EnglandIan Russell10. "Take Me Out" to "Sweet Caroline": Collective Singing in the BallparkMatthew W. Mihalka11. "Singing Their Heads Off": Sing-along Behavior in the Nightlife of Northern EnglandAlisun Pawley12. Brigadoon in the Heights: Fostering Intimacy, Community, and Activism through Secular Leftist HymnodyEve McPhersonPart III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveIntroduction to Part III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveKay Norton13. Benefits of Community Singing for Cancer Patients, Survivors and CaregiversAmy Clements-Cortés and Joyce Yip14. "It's about the Relationships": Epiphanies in SongleadingRoger Mantie and Glenn Marais15. "Everyone Can Sing": Class Choirs in 0th through 3rd Grades and the Significance of Community Singing for Pupils' Social Wellbeing and School EngagementLars Ole Bonde and Stefan Ingerslev16. Singing for Singing's Sake? Community Singing in Norwegian SchoolsAnne Haugland Balsnes17. "Scare Away the Dark": The Promotion of Singing to Create Post-Secondary Academic CommunitiesTrudi Wright18. Songs of Diversity: Three Case Studies of Community Singing, Identity, and Well-beingCatherine Birch, Ruth Currie, Wayne Dawson, and Stephen CliftPart IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureIntroduction to Part IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureKay Norton19. Community Choirs: The Challenges and Possibilities of InclusivityKayla Drudge and Anna E. Nekola20. Blend and Balance in Trans* Choral MusickingHolly Patch21. Peace and Harmony Prevailing: Masonic Singing in the USAndrew Schaeffer22. Singing Jewishness: The Musical Nostalgia of Jewish Congregational MelodiesRachel Adelstein23. Sacred Sounds and Social Justice: Singing the Spirituals in an Interracial and Multigenerational Community ChoirAleysia K. Whitmore and Marquisha L. Scott24. Women Singing in a Rural North Indian Community: A Case StudyKamlesh Singh, Suman Sigroha, and Bharti ShokeenPart V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationIntroduction to Part V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationEsther M. Morgan-Ellis25. A "Badge of Americanism": Group Singing as Political Expression in the Early United StatesLaura Lohman26. Singing at Ellis IslandDorothy Glick Maglione27. Community Singing in Flint and Baltimore, 1917-1920Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and Alan L. Spurgeon28. The Disney Chorus: Singing Along to the Studio's Forging of American Musical IdentityGregory Camp29. Spectacle and Empire: Imagined Community and the Crystal Palace Handel FestivalsCharles Edward McGuire30. Estonian singing traditions as an impetus for community building and expressing Estonian cultural heritage in AustraliaNaomi CooperPart VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumIntroduction to Part VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumKay Norton31. The Voices of Hope: A Traveling MiracleSusan Bishop32. Community Singing as Counterculture in a Women's PrisonAmanda Weber33. Border Transgressions: Song, Story, and CommunalEmilie Amrein and André de Quadros34. Singing, Suffering, and Liberation in the Concentration Camps of the South African WarErin Johnson-Williams35. Music, Emotion, and Asylum: Wellbeing Mapped Through Choral SingingJane W. Davidson, Benjamin P. Leske, and Amanda E. Krause36. Selectively Staging the "Beloved Community": Sacred Harp Singing and Racial Politics in the Folk RevivalJesse P. KarlsbergPart VII. Singing and Political ActionIntroduction to Part VII. Singing and Political ActionEsther M. Morgan-Ellis37. New Firebombs in Old Bottles: Social Mobilization and Cultural Resonance of Protest SongsMarek Payerhin38. From "Preguntitas sobre Dios" to "Solo le pido a Dios": Protest and Piety in Latin American Community SingingMarcell Silva Steuernagel39. March for the Beloved: A Brief History of a South Korean Protest SongJarryn Ha40. "Cielito Lindo" or "Son de la Negra"?: Mariachi, Latinidad, and the Trump Administration Cameo Flores41. Youth, Group Singing, and Peacebuilding in Urban ZimbabweSimbarashe Gukurume42. The Role of Hate Songs among Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Fans: The Entrapping Loop of HatredMoshe Bensimon and Shiran HenPart VIII. New ParadigmsIntroduction to Part VIII. New ParadigmsKay Norton43. Music and Human Flourishing in Christian CommunitiesNathan Myrick, Benjamin Gessner, and Johnathan Alvarado 44. By the Rivers of Babylon: Re-membering Community through the Affordance of Congregational Singing in Greek Orthodox Churches in the United StatesAlexander K. Khalil45. Community Singing, the Church of England, and Spirituality: The Singer, the Song, and the SingingJune Boyce-Tillman46. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes of Entrainment in Communal SingingGuy Hayward47. From Art Music to Heart Music: The Place of the Composer in Community SingingFiona EvisonIndex

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Georgia, where she also directs the orchestra and coaches the old-time string band. She studies participatory music-making traditions of the past and present, employing both historical and ethnographic methodologies. She has published on the American community singing movement, mediated sing-alongs, Sacred Harp singing, old-time string band music, and music history pedagogy, and is also active as a cellist, fiddler and fiddle teacher, and singer.Kay Norton is Professor of Musicology at Arizona State University. Her 2016 monograph, Singing and Wellbeing: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Proof (2016) incorporates threads from musicology, anthropology, philosophy, medical history, psychology of music, and neuroscience to argue the centrality of the melodious voice in human experience. Concurrently with that ongoing work, she presents and publishes on US American sacred music. She teaches researchmethodologies, gender in music, music in human experience, and nineteenth-century musical aesthetics, and is a lifelong community singer.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: Singing as Community, Singing into Community, and Growing the Singing CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis and Kay NortonPart I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityIntroduction to Part I. Media and the Imagination of CommunityEsther M. Morgan-Ellis1. Mediated Community SingingEsther M. Morgan-Ellis2. Selling with Singalongs: Community Singing as Advertising in Cinema, Radio and TelevisionMalcolm Cook3. Singing into a Smartphone: The Persuasive Affordances of Karaoke and Lip-Syncing AppsByrd McDaniel4. What the Pandemic Couldn't Take Away: Group Singing Benefits That Survived Going OnlineKay Norton5. Virtual choirs and issues of community choral practiceCole Bendall6. Community Singing in the Age of Coronavirus: The Case of Collegiate A CappellaJoshua S. DuchanPart II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesIntroduction to Part II. Singing in Place-Based CommunitiesEsther M. Morgan-Ellis7. "Some Old Remembered Song": Music at the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, 1825-1840Glen W. Hicks8. New Music for Old Prayers: Identity Construction and Community Building in Zimbabwean Black Jewish SynagoguesLior Shragg9. Vernacular Christmas Carol Singing in the Southern Pennines of EnglandIan Russell10. "Take Me Out" to "Sweet Caroline": Collective Singing in the BallparkMatthew W. Mihalka11. "Singing Their Heads Off": Sing-along Behavior in the Nightlife of Northern EnglandAlisun Pawley12. Brigadoon in the Heights: Fostering Intimacy, Community, and Activism through Secular Leftist HymnodyEve McPhersonPart III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveIntroduction to Part III. The Practitioner's PerspectiveKay Norton13. Benefits of Community Singing for Cancer Patients, Survivors and CaregiversAmy Clements-Cortés and Joyce Yip14. "It's about the Relationships": Epiphanies in SongleadingRoger Mantie and Glenn Marais15. "Everyone Can Sing": Class Choirs in 0th through 3rd Grades and the Significance of Community Singing for Pupils' Social Wellbeing and School EngagementLars Ole Bonde and Stefan Ingerslev16. Singing for Singing's Sake? Community Singing in Norwegian SchoolsAnne Haugland Balsnes17. "Scare Away the Dark": The Promotion of Singing to Create Post-Secondary Academic CommunitiesTrudi Wright18. Songs of Diversity: Three Case Studies of Community Singing, Identity, and Well-beingCatherine Birch, Ruth Currie, Wayne Dawson, and Stephen CliftPart IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureIntroduction to Part IV. Identity: Values, Ethnicity, and Inherited CultureKay Norton19. Community Choirs: The Challenges and Possibilities of InclusivityKayla Drudge and Anna E. Nekola20. Blend and Balance in Trans* Choral MusickingHolly Patch21. Peace and Harmony Prevailing: Masonic Singing in the USAndrew Schaeffer22. Singing Jewishness: The Musical Nostalgia of Jewish Congregational MelodiesRachel Adelstein23. Sacred Sounds and Social Justice: Singing the Spirituals in an Interracial and Multigenerational Community ChoirAleysia K. Whitmore and Marquisha L. Scott24. Women Singing in a Rural North Indian Community: A Case StudyKamlesh Singh, Suman Sigroha, and Bharti ShokeenPart V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationIntroduction to Part V. Identity: Politics, Patriotism, and AssimilationEsther M. Morgan-Ellis25. A "Badge of Americanism": Group Singing as Political Expression in the Early United StatesLaura Lohman26. Singing at Ellis IslandDorothy Glick Maglione27. Community Singing in Flint and Baltimore, 1917-1920Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and Alan L. Spurgeon28. The Disney Chorus: Singing Along to the Studio's Forging of American Musical IdentityGregory Camp29. Spectacle and Empire: Imagined Community and the Crystal Palace Handel FestivalsCharles Edward McGuire30. Estonian singing traditions as an impetus for community building and expressing Estonian cultural heritage in AustraliaNaomi CooperPart VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumIntroduction to Part VI. Transgressing Borders, Seeking AsylumKay Norton31. The Voices of Hope: A Traveling MiracleSusan Bishop32. Community Singing as Counterculture in a Women's PrisonAmanda Weber33. Border Transgressions: Song, Story, and CommunalEmilie Amrein and André de Quadros34. Singing, Suffering, and Liberation in the Concentration Camps of the South African WarErin Johnson-Williams35. Music, Emotion, and Asylum: Wellbeing Mapped Through Choral SingingJane W. Davidson, Benjamin P. Leske, and Amanda E. Krause36. Selectively Staging the "Beloved Community": Sacred Harp Singing and Racial Politics in the Folk RevivalJesse P. KarlsbergPart VII. Singing and Political ActionIntroduction to Part VII. Singing and Political ActionEsther M. Morgan-Ellis37. New Firebombs in Old Bottles: Social Mobilization and Cultural Resonance of Protest SongsMarek Payerhin38. From "Preguntitas sobre Dios" to "Solo le pido a Dios": Protest and Piety in Latin American Community SingingMarcell Silva Steuernagel39. March for the Beloved: A Brief History of a South Korean Protest SongJarryn Ha40. "Cielito Lindo" or "Son de la Negra"?: Mariachi, Latinidad, and the Trump Administration Cameo Flores41. Youth, Group Singing, and Peacebuilding in Urban ZimbabweSimbarashe Gukurume42. The Role of Hate Songs among Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Fans: The Entrapping Loop of HatredMoshe Bensimon and Shiran HenPart VIII. New ParadigmsIntroduction to Part VIII. New ParadigmsKay Norton43. Music and Human Flourishing in Christian CommunitiesNathan Myrick, Benjamin Gessner, and Johnathan Alvarado 44. By the Rivers of Babylon: Re-membering Community through the Affordance of Congregational Singing in Greek Orthodox Churches in the United StatesAlexander K. Khalil45. Community Singing, the Church of England, and Spirituality: The Singer, the Song, and the SingingJune Boyce-Tillman46. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes of Entrainment in Communal SingingGuy Hayward47. From Art Music to Heart Music: The Place of the Composer in Community SingingFiona EvisonIndex