Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory and Emotional History

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Abbi Flint (University of Oxford and Newcastle University) Clare Hickman (Newcastle University)

Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain

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ISBN: 9781009615358

A Sensory and Emotional History

Abbi Flint (University of Oxford and Newcastle University), Clare Hickman (Newcastle University)

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Cambridge University Press
05 February 2026

Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Songbooks; Psychology: emotions; Popular psychology

Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

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.

By: Abbi Flint (University of Oxford and Newcastle University), Clare Hickman (Newcastle University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9781009615358
ISBN 10: 1009615351
Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 05 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Sensing and feeling the landscape via the body; 2. Fellow-feeling through song; 3. Relating to place; 4. Contemporary connections and resonances; Bibliography.