Titlebook: Liberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices; Flipping the Song Bi Becca Whitla Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Au

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Singing Back Against Empire (or the Subaltern Sings Back),ential. At the same time, an analysis of the decolonial strategies of “epistemic disobedience” and “other ways of singing” shows that hymns clothed in the garments of European hymnody can be inverted (flipped) by the people who sing them so as to become instruments of resistance and sources of forbearance, strength, and hope.

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Border Singing,stmas Carol, “The Midwife’s Carol”—we can see how decolonial thinking goes beyond postcolonial frames by asserting the agency of those on the underside. Voices that challenge the dominance of Eurocentric worldviews through other ways of knowing and being in song can be fruitfully read along decolonial lines.