singing by rote / singing out of the book

singing by rote / singing out of the book (interesting that there’s a somatic component to singing from the book (which is inherently a philosophic/intellectual event). The action/posture of singing from the book during a ritual is the somatic foundation of the more philosophic interaction with the words. That’s why it’s so hard to get people to look up, or to turn loose of their books, now that they are second-generation book looker-atters. The book has become the ritual action, appropriately or not.