Hidden Voices: Professional Choristers in Southern Ontario
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Research has shown that choral music is a popular and persistent art form in Canadian life, yet little inquiry has been undertaken to better understand those who work in the field. This thesis sheds light on professional choristers in southern Ontario in an effort to dispel their shadowy status in both scholarly research and cultural policy. This status is a product of the culture of the choral arts sector that is inculcated by training and workplace institutions and internalized in the individual chorister's self-conceptualization. As workers in an inherently communal, community-based, and accessible art form, these choristers are ill matched with the contemporary logic of cultural policy. Through a methodology combining interviews with professional choristers and autoethnography, this thesis outlines their lived experiences and offers a glimpse of what an artist-centric federal cultural policy could be.
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Copyright © 2021 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
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