Ritual Sounds, Political Echoes: Vocal Agency and the Sensory Cultures of Secularism in the Dutch Syriac Diaspora

Ritual Sounds, Political Echoes: Vocal Agency and the Sensory Cultures of Secularism in the Dutch Syriac DiasporaAmerican EthnologistSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/L2B9RQLQ/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SarahBakker KelloggRitual Sounds, Political Echoes: Vocal Agency and the Sensory Cultures of Secularism in the Dutch Syriac Diasporahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/L2B9RQLQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/L2B9RQLQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/L2B9RQLQAmerican Ethnologist42:32015431-445Among Syriac Orthodox Christian migrant communities in the Netherlands, liturgical performance is a site of controversy over where and how to draw a boundary between "religious" and "ethnic" identity. Tensions materialize in discordant singing styles and modes of performance, echoing complex historical encounters with Dutch, Syrian, and Turkish secularisms. These encounters, I argue, have refashioned the liturgical tradition's role as a central axis of ethnoreligious social life and kin relations across the diaspora. Secular state practices shape a diasporic sensory culture that is met with a distinct form of vocal agency. Syriac Orthodox liturgical experiments show how the voice can transform the sensorial interface between human subjectivity and social intelligibility, in turn transforming how categories of secular modernity-whether ritual, art, ethnicity, or politics-are distinguished and lived. Bakker Kellogg, Sarah. “Ritual Sounds, Political Echoes: Vocal Agency and the Sensory Cultures of Secularism in the Dutch Syriac Diaspora.” American Ethnologist 42:3 (2015): 431–45. Sarah Bakker Kellogg, Ritual Sounds, Political Echoes: Vocal Agency and the Sensory Cultures of Secularism in the Dutch Syriac Diaspora, American Ethnologist 42:3 (2015): 431–45.JacobitesXIX-XXI CEXXI CEdiasporaethnicityidentitymusicsecularsinging