Contents: Introduction: choral conducting in context; Part I How to Study Conducting: Model, Method, Metalanguage: How do people think about conducting?; From ethnography to peer research; How to write about conducting. Part II Choral Singing and Enculturation: Defining choral culture: what counts as choral?; Creating choral culture: the dos and don'ts; Maintaining choral culture: policing the boundaries. Part III Conducting Gesture and Musical Thought: Different styles, different gestures; Different styles, common ground; Metaphoric gesture and embodied musical meaning; Spontaneous gesture and the ensemble. Part IV The Conductor-Choir Bond: Monkey see, monkey do; Making use of the conductor-choir bond; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.