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Indigenous Religious Musics
Edited by Dr Karen Ralls-MacLeod
University of Edinburgh, UK
and Dr Graham Harvey
King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK
(SOAS Musicology Series)
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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 component of many such rituals and belief
systems and examples of these are explored amongst the peoples of Uganda,
Amazonia 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.
With information on available recordings, and including a CD of music
from many of the traditions represented, this is a book which gives readers the
opportunity to gain a richer experience of the lived realities of indigenous
religious musics.
Contents:
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Introduction |
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Karen Ralls-MacLeod & Graham
Harvey
University of Edinburgh, UK
& King Alfred's College,
Winchester, UK
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| 1. |
Te Kaha o te Waiata - The power
of Music: Maori Oral Traditions illustrated by E Tipu e
Rea |
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Peter Mataira
Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand |
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From Here into Eternity: Power and
Transcendance in Australian Aboriginal music |
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David Turner, University of
Toronto, Canada |
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Sacred and Profane: Music in Korean
Shaman Rituals |
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Keith Howard
School of Oriental
& African Studies (SOAS), University of London |
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Maasai Musics, Rituals and
Identities |
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Malcolm Floyd
King Alfred's
College, Winchester, UK |
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Appeasing the Spirits: Music,
Possession, Divination and Healing in Busoga, Eastern Uganda |
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Peter Cooke
School of Oriental
& African Studies (SOAS), University of London |
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Chasing Off God |
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Jan G Platvoet
Leiden University,
The Netherlands (retired) |
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Sounding the Sacred: Music as Sacred
Site (the Search for a Universal Sacred Music) |
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June Boyce-Tillman
King Alfred's
College, Winchester, UK |
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Emerging Amazonian Peoples:
Myth-chants |
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Guilherme Werlang, University
of St Andrews, Scotland |
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Structure into Practice: A Theory
of Inuit music |
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Christopher Trott, University
of Manitoba, Canada |
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The Music of the Mescalero Apache Girls'
Puberty Ceremony |
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Anne Dhu McLucas, University
of Oregon, USA |
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Recordings |
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CD Information |
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Index |
| Publisher: |
Ashgate, London
Hardback,
c.256 pages |
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ISBN 0 7546 0249 4 |
| Release date: |
February 2001 |
| Music CD: |
Recordings of powerful music from many of the
traditions represented in the book. |
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