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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Abbi FlintORCiD, Dr Clare HickmanORCiD
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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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author(s): Flint A, Hickman C
Series Editor(s): Rob Boddice, Piroska Nagy and Mark Smith
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Year: 2026
Number of Pages: 75
Print publication date: 01/02/2026
Online publication date: 01/01/2026
Acceptance date: 10/09/2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place Published: Cambridge, UK
URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009615402
DOI: 10.1017/9781009615402
Notes: 9781009615402 online ISBN.
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781009615358
