Venue: Theatre 2
Chair: Professor Helen Phelan
Presenters: Dr Lim, Swee Hong, and Dr Eleanor Giraud
This panel examines how liturgical music both reflects and constructs religious identity across different historical and geographical contexts. Dr. Giraud's presentation explores the revision of Dominican liturgical practices in the thirteenth century. She uses analysis of medieval manuscripts to reveal the choices that shaped Dominican chant, focussing in particular on chant modes, chants for the mass, and the celebration of particular feast days. Dr Lim's presentation traces the development of Asian congregational songs from dependence on translated Western hymns towards postcolonial hybrid forms that balance original cultural identity with cross-cultural adaptability. Guided by theological principles, these contextually determined songs offer a pathway for expressing Asian Christian identity in the twenty-first century. Together, these papers demonstrate how liturgical music-making serves as a site where communities negotiate between external authorities and local expression, between uniformity and diversity, revealing the values and priorities that define religious identity鈥攚hether in medieval Europe or contemporary Asia.
Dr. Lim, Swee Hong is the Deer Park Associate Professor of Sacred Music at Emmanuel College, Toronto, and the Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program.
Eleanor J. Giraud is an Associate Professor in Ritual Chant and Song, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Admission is free and all are welcome.