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<p>This article relies upon a multi-year, IRB-approved ethnographic study of a chapter of Threshold Choir, a group that sings for patients on hospice, to forward an analysis of embodied, transpersonal agency. Combining tools of rhetorical analysis, autoethnography, and ethnography, including data from interviews, surveys, and field notes, I demonstrate that when singers offer palliative care by singing to/for hospice patients, the practice seems to affect both patients and singers emotionally as well as physically. The work of Threshold Choir offers a unique opportunity for an empathetic exchange that can decrease discomfort and allow an embodied, transpersonal agency to emerge for Threshold singers and those they sing for at bedside.</p>

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Embodied, Transpersonal Agency: Singing at the Bedside

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    2025年5月9日

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  • Kim Hensley Owens

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This article relies upon a multi-year, IRB-approved ethnographic study of a chapter of Threshold Choir, a group that sings for patients on hospice, to forward an analysis of embodied, transpersonal agency. Combining tools of rhetorical analysis, autoethnography, and ethnography, including data from interviews, surveys, and field notes, I demonstrate that when singers offer palliative care by singing to/for hospice patients, the practice seems to affect both patients and singers emotionally as well as physically. The work of Threshold Choir offers a unique opportunity for an empathetic exchange that can decrease discomfort and allow an embodied, transpersonal agency to emerge for Threshold singers and those they sing for at bedside.