1st Edition
Music Worlding in Palau Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness
By Birgit Abels
Copyright 2022
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness – that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, escapes interpretive techniques.... Read more
Acknowledgments, Music Worlding in Palau: An Introduction, 1 Latmikaik's Children and Their Music, 2 Vaguely Specific: Resonant Historicity with Chesóls, 3 Listening with the Dancing Body: Ruk and Movement's Incipiency, 4 Rak, Where Is He Now? Presence; Present, 5 Resonance: Co-Becoming with Sound, 6 Of Magic and Meaningfulness : Chelitákl Rechuódel and the Felt-bodily Dimensions of Spiritual Practice, Conclusion, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Birgit Abels is professor of cultural musicology at the University of Göttingen. She is the author of Sounds of Articulating Identity: Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau, Micronesia and Principal Investigator on the European Research Council project Sound Knowledge. Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World.
