ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the theorizing of the everyday by showing the in-depth complexities that surround, and add meaning to, the two main such musical activities prevalent among adults in Buklavu at the time of the author research, church services and karaoke. The church service recurred according to a fixed timetable every Sunday morning. Karaoke, meanwhile, was less fixed to a single weekly timeslot, being instead a ubiquitous component of the celebrations accompanying every wedding, birthday, or other special occasion. The chapter looks at a kind of communal singing among Buklavu’s Bunun and again one with a foundational link to collective drinking, the offering of a gift, respectful co-presence in sound, and the sustaining of inheritance. It focuses on a setting where Bunun gather to raise their voices and move their bodies, sharing the heightened experiences of live performance.
