Singing from the same hymn sheet was a great symposium day from Panel 1 to the Pub in the evening. Here's some of the researchers and research most relevant to our street choirs research project;
The Reverend Professor June Boyce-Tillman (feminism, ‘applied music’) How do we give value to each other without singing from the same hymn sheet? http://www.winchester.ac.uk/academicdepartments/PerformingArts/peopleprofiles/Pages/TheReverendProfessorJuneBoyce-Tillman.aspx
Boyce-Tillman, June (2007b), Music and Value in Cross-cultural work. Chapter in Urbain, Olivier (2007), Music and Conflict transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics, London: I. B. Tauris pp 40-52
Space for Peace (2012) http://www.winchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/eventscalendar/Pages/SpaceforPeace2012.aspx
David Gilbert & Natalie Hyacinth (Geography)
Music and popular creativity in suburban faith communities (including space/architecture/music)
http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/projects/music-and-popular-creativity-in-suburban-faith-communities(25ab2618-24b4-4170-9d28-ae5c8f31a8fb).html
Rebecca Bramall (media studies)
‘The rise of the choir in austerity’
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/rebecca-bramall
The Cultural Politics of Austerity: Past and Present in Austere Times (2013)
Bramall, R. (2012) Popular culture and anti-austerity protest Journal of European Popular Culture, 3 (1). pp. 9-22. ISSN 2040-6134
Eiluned Pearce (anthropology)
‘Uncovering evolved mechanisms for community cohesion’ (e.g. singing)
http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers/eiluned-pearce
Caroline Bithell (ethnomusicology)
‘Reclaiming community theough the Natural Voice… (Practioners)
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/caroline.bithell/personaldetails
Caroline Bithell. A Different Voice, A Different Song. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. eScholarID:231947 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199354542.001.0001
Shilpah Shah (practioner)
‘My Heart Sings’ http://www.myheartsings.co.uk/
Dominic Stichbury (practitioner)
Chaps Choir http://www.chapschoir.com/
Diana Parkinson
‘How gender affect community singing’
Middlesex University