240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Indeed, music forms a key... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Karen Ralls-MacLeod and Graham Harvey; 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 possession in a sharing society, Jan G. Platvoet; Sounding the sacred: music as sacred site (the search for a universal sacred music), June Boyce-Tillman; Emerging Amazonian peoples: myth-chants, Guilherme Werlang; Structure into practice: a theory of Inuit music, Chrisopher G. Trott; The music of the Mescalero Apache girls’ puberty ceremony, Anne Dhu McLucas, Recordings; CD information, Index.
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Karen Ralls-MacLeod and Graham Harvey
'This book marks a welcome and innovative addition to a growing list of publications on indigenous religions associated with Graham Harvey...' Journal of Contemporary Religion
