| Series |
Religions of the world
Religions of the world (Cambridge, Mass.) ^A330960
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| Contents |
Tantrism, rasa, and Javanese gamelan music / Judith Becker -- World musics and world religions: whose world? / Philip V. Bohlman -- Music and historical consciousness among the Dagbamba of Ghana / John Chernoff -- Historicism and the quest for D/divine music / Michael W. Harris -- "Musicalizing" the Other: shamanistic approaches to ethnic-class competition among the upper Rio Negro / Jonathan D. Hill -- Conceptualizations of music in Jewish mysticism / Moshe Idel -- Music, myth, and medicine in the Choctaw Indian ballgame / Victoria Lindsay Levin -- Islam and music: the legal and the spiritual dimensions / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Music and the Confucian sacrificial ceremony / Rulan Chao Pian -- Sounding the Word: music in the life of Islam / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Mythologies and realities in the study of Jewish music / Kay Kaufman Shelemay. |
| Abstract |
In case studies drawn from a selection of cultures, the contributors illustrate that where music and religion intersect, one can expect to discover a central crossroads of mutually revealing realities: the Confucian sacrifical ceremony, the Choctaw Indian ballgame and social dance music, the "drum history" of the Dagbamba of northern Ghana, the controversial musical recitation of the message of Islam, the ecstatic vocalizations of kabbalah, and the "globalizing" structures of world religions and world musics. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 97011171 |
| ISBN | 0945454090 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0945454120 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
