Choral Voices

Sebanti Chaterjee is a sound anthropologist and a senior academic fellow at National Law School India University, Bengaluru. She is a recipient of India Foundation of Arts Research Grant, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SRA FY 2016), the Indian Council of Social Science Research fellowship, and former editorial member of Serenade Magazine.

ListofIllustrations
Prologue: Warming Up
1 Introduction: Choral beginnings: Inside the chapel and a home studio
1.1 A biography of community- delineating the Sacred and the Heritage
1.2 Establishing a musical cadence
1.3 Framing choral music within Christian landscapes
1.4 Aural Intentions: Summary of chapters
2 Making of the Indigenous
2.1 Interrogating the Indigenous
2.2 Emplacing the Indigenous
2.3 Understanding Indigeneity, Inculturality and Decoloniality
2.4 Music and Decoloniality
2.5 Exploring the relationship between Indigeneity and Sacrality
2.6 Indigenous Possibilities in curricula and performance: Field narratives
2.7 Towards Sonic Interculturality
3 From Loft to the Recording Studio: Shillong Diaries
3.1 What brings you to Shillong? Introduction
3.2 Cusp of Sacrality, new Technologies and Creative Processes
3.3 Choral Voices as ethnographic objects
3.4 Short Historical Snippets about Christianity and Musicality in Khasi and Lushai Hills
3.5 Discussing Genre, Intertextuality and Territorialisation
3.6 Shillong Chamber Choir
3.7 Repertoire- Medleys/Crossovers
3.8 Beyond performance
3.9 Aroha Choir
3.10 Conclusion
4 The Language of Music: Notes from a Goan Seminary
4.1 Inhabiting the Seminary
4.2 Outlining Goan Sacred Music
4.3 A brief history of music and language in Goa
4.4 Entering the field site
4.5 Rachol Seminary
4.6 Introducing the seminarians
4.7 Syncretic musical experimentations in Goan Sacred music
4.8 Goan Sacred music- Motets
4.9 Conclusion
5 Mapping Choral Voices: Role of People and Places
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Hierarchization of voices
5.3 Indigeneity and Christian Music Tradition
5.4 Music Performance
5.5 Conclusion
6 Tutti: Concluding Section
6.1 The Musical Clef Notating Certainty- Uncertainty
6.2 Positing the Vocal Phrasing
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Glossary
Appendix
Documentary – Da Capo
Index