The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities (Oxford Handbooks)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019985999X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 744 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Suzel Ana Reily is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. She has also edited The Music Human: Rethinking John Blacking's Ethnomusicology in the 21st Century (Ashgate, 2006) and Brass Bands of the World:Militarism, Colonial Legacies and Local Music Making (with K Brucher, Ashgate, 2013).Jonathan Dueck is Assistant Professor of Writing and Deputy Director o
"Recommended."--Choice"The volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters." --Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions.The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. Given that the centerpiece of the volume is Christian religious musical practice, the volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters.. These broad mater