Auditory Hospitality in the Coptic Diaspora

In this ethnomusicological ethnography, I explore with my interlocutors how music, sound and liturgical hymnology across Coptic people's life histories are embodied and negotiated through the praxis of auditory hospitality. Auditory hospitality is a concept that functions to critically embrace sound as a mediation of hospitality between a host and guest within and outside liturgical spaces; in this sense, sound hosts, invites and responds back.