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Turino’s description of the participatory musical experience as one that is “fully focused on an activity that emphasizes our sameness” (Turino 2008, p. 18) resonates with Edward O. Henry’s observation, in relation to his work on Bhojpuri devotional music, that “group singing and dancing are unique in the repertoire of human behavior in the way they join individuals in social relation through individual, psycho-physiological gratification (Henry 1998, pp. 116–17)”.

Brown, S. B. (2024). A Festival of Chariots: How Music and the Arts Take the Hindu Temple Experience to the Streets. Religions, 15(12), 1456. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15121456