| Series |
[SOAS musicology series]
SOAS musicology series. ^A581180
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| Contents |
Te Kaha o te Waiata, the power of music: Maori oral traditions illustrated by E Tipu e Rea / Peter Mataira -- From here into eternity: power and transcendence in Australian Aboriginal music / David H. Turner -- Sacred and profane: music in Korean shaman rituals / Keith Howard -- Maasai musics, rituals and identities / Malcolm Floyd -- Appeasing the spirits: music, possession, divination and healing in Busoga, Eastern Uganda / Peter R. Cooke -- Chasing off God: spirit possesion in a sharing society / Jan C. Platvoet -- Sounding the sacred: music as sacred site / June Boyce-Tillman -- Emerging Amazonian peoples: myth-chants / Guilherme Werlang -- Structure into practice: a theory of Inuit music / Christopher G. Trott -- The music of the Mescalero Apache girls' puberty ceremony / Anne Dhu McLucas. |
| Abstract |
Celebrating the diversity of indigenous nations, cultures and religions, the essays which comprise this volume discuss the musics performed by a wide variety of peoples as an integral part of their cultural traditions. These include examinations of the various styles of Maori, Inuit and Australian Aboriginal musics, and the role of music in Korean shaman rituals. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING. SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER CD-9165. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 211-213), and index. |
| LCCN | 00135320 |
| ISBN | 0754602494 |
