Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual

Jeffers Engelhardt is Associate Professor of Music at Amherst College. 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 für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Oberlin

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. "Centered around the concepts of transitions and transcendence in human experience, the essays Engelhardt and Bohlman have gathered are eclectic. Within the space of twenty-five pages, the editors cover such themes as sacred metaphysics, sounding and resonance, histories and processes of transcendence, immanence and secularity, voice, ritual transition, postcolonialism, postsec

Dr. Debra Jan Bibel said Sacred Music under Changing Social, Political, and Cultural Pressures. 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-philosophical matters to instead focus on pragmatic, social and political changes in sacred music brought about by modern cultural pressures and even advances in technology. The religious experience is broad, with chapters . good . Kay good product with high quality. suit for this price . Awesome product! Works perfectly for leveling and trimming cakes! my parents need it, good .

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. 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. 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. 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. By examining the immanence of transcendence in specific social and historical contexts and rethinking the reified nature of "religion" and "world r