
Resounding Transcendence
Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 14. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-19-973765-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. 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. 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 confronts the relationship of sound, divinity, and religious practice in diverse post-secular contexts. By examining the immanence of transcendence in specific social and historical contexts and rethinking the reified nature of "religion" and "world religions," these authors examine the dynamics of difference and transition within and between sacred musical practices. 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. Broad in scope, rich in ethnographic and historical detail, and theoretically ambitious, Resounding Transcendence is an essential contribution to the study of music and religion.
Resounding Transcendence confronts the relationship of sound, divinity, and religious practice in diverse post-secular contexts. By examining the immanence of transcendence in specific social and historical contexts and rethinking the reified nature of "religion" and "world religions," these authors examine the dynamics of difference and transition within and between sacred musical practices. 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. Broad in scope, rich in ethnographic and historical detail, and theoretically ambitious, Resounding Transcendence is an essential contribution to the study of music and religion.
Reviews / Votes
This wide-ranging and significant collection welcomes within its pages a diversity of material that both opens up new interdisciplinary perspectives and, at moments, skirts on the edges of coherence. * Mark Porter, Music & Letters * The contributors approach their topics from their subjects' lived experienceunderstanding gathered both from fieldwork and from study of the literatureexamining all under the overarching theme of transcendence. Students of comparative religion, ethnomusicology, and postcolonial studies will find much to ponder in this collection. * M. J. Duffy IV, Choice *More details
Language
English
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New York
United States
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
514 gr
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978-0-19-973765-9 (9780199737659)
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Jeffers Engelhardt is Associate Professor of Music at Amherst College. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Oberlin College, his research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. His first book Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia was also published by Oxford University Press.
Philip V. Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule fuer Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. He was coeditor of Music in American Religious Experience and author of Jewish Music and Modernity, both published by Oxford University Press.
Philip V. Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule fuer Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. He was coeditor of Music in American Religious Experience and author of Jewish Music and Modernity, both published by Oxford University Press.
Editor
Assistant Prof., Anthropology of MusicAssistant Prof., Anthropology of Music, Amherst College
Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the HumanitiesMary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Resounding Transcendence - An Introduction - Philip V. Bohlman and Jeffers
Engelhardt
PART 1 Liturgy, Performance Healing
1 Ensnare the Thief in the House of the Wind: Negotiating Musical Routes of B?ul-ness
Bertie Kibreah
2 Transcending Boundaries: Javanese Wayang Kulit without the Shadows
Sarah Weiss
3 Variations for New Themes: Recent Liturgical Developments of the Major Buddhist Festivals in Taiwan
Pi-yen Chen
4 Voicing the Between in Tunisian S?amb?l?
Richard C. Jankowsky
PART 2 Culture, Identity, Soceity
5 Sounds Transcendent: Gospel Music and the Negotiation of Proximity in Trinidad
Timothy Rommen
6 New Christian Music in Indonesia: Inculturation in Transition
Marzanna Poplawska
7 Transforming Christian Music, Transforming Social Identity in South India
Zoe C. Sherinian
PART 3 Media and Technology, Transmission and Transformation
8 Technology and the Transmission of Oral Tradition in the Contemporary Jewish Community
Jeffrey A. Summit
9 Music, Media, Message: Transitions in Contemporary American Evangelical Music
Stephen A. Marini
PART 4 Europe, Secularity, Revival
10 Sacred Poetics and Musical Politics in Post-Secular Europe
Philip V. Bohlman
11 Arvo Paert and the Idea of a Christian Europe: The Musical Effects and Affects of Post-Ideological Religion
Jeffers Engelhardt
12 Byzantine Blossom: The Monastic Revival of Orthodox Chant at Mount Athos
Tore Tvarno Lind
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Resounding Transcendence - An Introduction - Philip V. Bohlman and Jeffers
Engelhardt
PART 1 Liturgy, Performance Healing
1 Ensnare the Thief in the House of the Wind: Negotiating Musical Routes of B?ul-ness
Bertie Kibreah
2 Transcending Boundaries: Javanese Wayang Kulit without the Shadows
Sarah Weiss
3 Variations for New Themes: Recent Liturgical Developments of the Major Buddhist Festivals in Taiwan
Pi-yen Chen
4 Voicing the Between in Tunisian S?amb?l?
Richard C. Jankowsky
PART 2 Culture, Identity, Soceity
5 Sounds Transcendent: Gospel Music and the Negotiation of Proximity in Trinidad
Timothy Rommen
6 New Christian Music in Indonesia: Inculturation in Transition
Marzanna Poplawska
7 Transforming Christian Music, Transforming Social Identity in South India
Zoe C. Sherinian
PART 3 Media and Technology, Transmission and Transformation
8 Technology and the Transmission of Oral Tradition in the Contemporary Jewish Community
Jeffrey A. Summit
9 Music, Media, Message: Transitions in Contemporary American Evangelical Music
Stephen A. Marini
PART 4 Europe, Secularity, Revival
10 Sacred Poetics and Musical Politics in Post-Secular Europe
Philip V. Bohlman
11 Arvo Paert and the Idea of a Christian Europe: The Musical Effects and Affects of Post-Ideological Religion
Jeffers Engelhardt
12 Byzantine Blossom: The Monastic Revival of Orthodox Chant at Mount Athos
Tore Tvarno Lind
Bibliography
Index