Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DO5VSZI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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His first book Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia was also published by Oxford University Press.Philip V. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Oberlin College, his research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. He was coeditor of Music in American Religious Experience and author of Jewish Music and Modernity, both published by Oxford University Pres
"Sacred Music under Changing Social, Political, and Cultural Pressures" according to Dr. Debra Jan Bibel. Editors Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip V. Bohlman wrote a deep, scholarly, and extensive introduction covering the core aspects of music within ritual and religious transcendence across various religions, East and West. The specific essays by ten other scholars that follow pale in comparison, largely avoiding the psycho-p. Kay said good .. good product with high quality. suit for this price . Awesome product! Works perfectly for leveling and trimming cakes! my parents need it, good .
The contributors approach their topics from their subjects' lived experience--understanding gathered both from fieldwork and from study of the literature--examining all under the overarching theme of transcendence. Religious traditions examined include Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism. Transcendence, they argue, acknowledges the symbolic character of music. "Centered around the concepts of transitions and transcendence in human experience, the essays Engelhardt and Bohlman have gathered are eclectic. Covering developments in religious and musical traditions in various parts of the world--South and Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Tunisia, Trinidad, the US, and Europe--the volume covers music both performed and received. Within the space o
The work in this volume transitions between traditional spaces of sacred musical practice and emerging public spaces for popular religious performance; between the transformative experience of ritual and the sacred musical affordances of media technologies; between the charisma of individual performers and the power of the marketplace; and between the making of authenticity and hybridity in religious repertoires and practices. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, North America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and Europe, the volume establishes the theoretical and methodological foundations for music scholarship to engage in current debates about modern religion and secular epistemologies. Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. It also transforms those debates through sophisticated, nuanced treatments of sound and music - ubiquitous elements of ritual and religion often glossed over in other disciplines.Resounding Transcendence