"Music is an important tool, but it is also important who is singing, speaking or writing," she said.
Ehrenreich chronicles the early church's systematic attempts to remove the Dionysian elements from their services - dancing, singing, speaking in tongues, the tossing of freely flowing hair.
And unlike Salome in that Richard Strauss opera, she is given no time to change gears between dancing and singing; speaking, singing, playing the castanets and dancing must coalesce seamlessly in this archetypal femme fatale.
In village settings among the Kalinga of Luzon, in the Philippines, singing, speaking, or whispering of vowels is so subtle as to blur the border line between speech and song.
This can be done through "technical manipulation, singing, speaking, dancing or other activity".
Placed in the center of a choral arrangement, voices emit from freestanding speakers, singing, speaking, whispering; interrupting each other- until they fall silent.
They dance, sing, speak in tongues, issue prophecies and even, they believe, heal the sick.
Am I about to sing-speak-preach?
The mixed chorus sings, speaks, whispers and shouts.
He sings, speaks, writes and records at his own measured pace.
