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Enchanting powers : music in the world's religions / edited by Lawrence E. Sullivan.

Contributor(s): Sullivan, Lawrence Eugene, 1949-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Religions of the world (Cambridge, Mass.): Distributor: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: viii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0945454120 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0945454090 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Music -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 781.7 LOC classification: ML2900 | .E56 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Tantrism, rasa, and Javanese gamelan music / Judith Becker -- World musics and world religions : whose world / Philip V. Bohlman -- Music and historical consciousness among the Dagbamba of Ghana / John Chernoff -- Historicism and the quest of D/divine music / Michael W. Harris -- "Musicalizing" the Other : shamanistic approaches to ethnic-class competition among the upper Rio Negro / Jonathan D. Hill -- Conceptualizations of music in Jewish mysticism / Moshe Idel -- Music, myth, and medicine in the Choctaw Indian ballgame / Victoria Lindsay Levin -- Islam and music : the legal and the spiritual dimensions / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Music and the Confucian sacrificial ceremony / Rulan Chao Pian -- Sounding the Word : music in the life of Islam / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Mythologies and realities in the study of Jewish music / Kay Kaufman Shelemay.

Includes bibliographical references.

Tantrism, rasa, and Javanese gamelan music / Judith Becker -- World musics and world religions : whose world / Philip V. Bohlman -- Music and historical consciousness among the Dagbamba of Ghana / John Chernoff -- Historicism and the quest of D/divine music / Michael W. Harris -- "Musicalizing" the Other : shamanistic approaches to ethnic-class competition among the upper Rio Negro / Jonathan D. Hill -- Conceptualizations of music in Jewish mysticism / Moshe Idel -- Music, myth, and medicine in the Choctaw Indian ballgame / Victoria Lindsay Levin -- Islam and music : the legal and the spiritual dimensions / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Music and the Confucian sacrificial ceremony / Rulan Chao Pian -- Sounding the Word : music in the life of Islam / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Mythologies and realities in the study of Jewish music / Kay Kaufman Shelemay.

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