Indigenous Religious Music (SOAS Musicology Series)
Editorial Reviews
Professor James Cox, Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol 17:1, 2002
A welcome and innovative addition to a growing list of publications on indigenous religions...a genuinely multi-disciplinary study
Book Description
What does the music of indigeneous cultures sound like?
What does it mean to those who create it?
And why is "world music" so popular today?
Celebrating the diversity of indigenous nations, cultures and religions, the articles which comprise this edited academic volume [part of the SOAS Ethnomusicology Series (University of London)], discuss the musics performed by a wide variety of peoples as an integral part of their cultural traditions. These include, for ex., examinations of the various styles of Maori, Inuit, and Australian Aboriginal musics, and the special role of music in Korean Shaman rituals.
Music forms a key component of many such rituals and belief systems and examples of these are explored amongst the peoples of Uganda, the Amazon rain forest, Korea, and Africa. Through analysis of these rituals and the part music plays in them, the essays also open up further themes including social groupings and gender divisions and engage with issues and debates on how we define and approach the study of indigeneity, religiosity and music.
This book has ten chapters, written by experts, and also includes a CD of music from many of the traditions represented. This book is one which gives readers the opportunity to not only read about--but experience--the lived realities of indigeneous religious musics today.
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