Ritualised Belonging

The Rev. Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE is Professor Emerita of Applied Music at the University of Winchester. She has wide experience in education, spirituality and music and has published widely in these areas. She is the convenor of Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing International (http:www.mswinternational.org). She is an Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, South Africa. She is a selfsupporting ordained Anglican Priest and received an MBE for her contribution to music and education.Liesl van der Merwe is an associate professor in the School of Music at the North-West University, South Africa. She is a grant holder of the NRF research project: Social Cohesion Through Community Music Engagement. Her research interests lie in music and wellbeing, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, spirituality and lived musical experiences. She supervises postgraduate studies, teaches research methodology, music education and bassoon. She has published articles in high-impact journals such as Psychology of Music, Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research and Frontiers in Psychology. Liesl also performs in chamber music ensembles and is the conductor of the North-West Youth Orchestra.Janelize Morelli is a senior lecturer in community music at North-West University, School of Music, South Africa. She is a member of the MASARA research niche and the manager of the Musikhane Community Music Engagement Program. Janelize is co-principal investigator of the NRF research project: Social Cohesion Through Community Music Engagement. She holds a PhD from the Steinhardt School at New York University, under guidance of Professor David Elliott, in music education. Her research interests include an ethic of care and relationality in community music. Janelize supervises postgraduate students interested in critical topics in music education and community music. She is passionate about arts-based research.

• Contents: Interaction Ritual Theory: Understanding the Conditions for Spiritual Musicing – Debra Joubert and Liesl Van Der Merwe: Understanding Ritualised Belonging in Music Education Literature through the Lens of Interaction Ritual Theory – Ewie Erasmus: Experiences of Ritualised Belonging of Young Adults Living with Williams Syndrome during Variety Hour – Liesl Van Der Merwe, Catrien Wentink and Janelize Morelli: Exploring Interaction Rituals during Dalcroze- Inspired Musicing at Oak Tree Care Home for the Elderly: An Ethnography – Hetta Potgieter: «Be still, and know that I am God»: Participants’ Lived Experiences of Meditative Services – Displacement: Towards Belonging and Hope – Albi Odendaal: A Musical Home with Many Rooms: Boundaries and Belonging – Carl Pilkington: Negotiating Queer Performativity in Music Education: Performing/ Resisting for Belonging – Waldo Weyer: When Music and Teacher Equal Home: An Autoethnography – Nozipho Hlungwani and Julia Mantsali Modise: Exploring Student- Teachers’ Stories about Musicing and Belonging at Vukona Development Community Centre – Spiritual Musicing for the Transformation of Music Education – Boudina Mcconnachie: Social Cohesion through Sonic Intervention – Sihle Sibusiso Shongwe: Towards a Framework of Critical Hope for Higher Music Education – Urvi Drummond: Authentic Connection through Emotional Experiences in Piano Lessons: A Piano Teacher’s Autoethnographic Account of Care – Sonja Cruywagen and Debra Joubert: Exploring the «Experience of the Experiencer» in an Undergraduate Jazz Ensemble Learning Community – Joy Meyer: Musicing as an Act of Engaging with Diversity: An Autoethnography – Storied Lives: Relationality and Spirituality in Musical Experiences – Marelize Van Heerden: Dance Education as an Agent of Social Cohesion – Janelize Morelli: Relationality as Ethical Foundation for Community Music Practice – Corlia Fourie: Exploring Spirituality and Relationality in the Lived Piano- Playing Experiences of Older Adults – Laetitia Orlandi: Connectedness and Sacred Experiences: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Five Pianists’ Spiritual Music- Making Experiences – Chris Van Rhyn: Because I could not stop for death: Composing an Electronic Work as a Mourning and Healing Ritual – Etienne Viviers: Concerning the Utopian Control of Music: Whereto in a Democratic South Africa? – June Boyce- Tillman: Postlude: Musical Rituals for Reconciliation.