Contemporary Music And Spirituality

Author : Robert Sholl,Sander Van Maas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317160656

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Contemporary Music and Spirituality by Robert Sholl,Sander Van Maas Pdf

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have sought to invoke spirituality and Otherness through contemporary music. Contemporary Music and Spirituality provides a detailed exploration of the recent and current state of contemporary spiritual music in its religious, musical, cultural and conceptual-philosophical aspects. At the heart of the book are issues that consider the role of secularization, the claims of modernity concerning the status of art, and subjective responses such as faith and experience. The contributors provide a new critical lens through which it is possible to see the music and thought of Cage, Ligeti, Messiaen, Stockhausen as spiritual music. The book surrounds these composers with studies of and by other composers directly associated with the idea of spiritual music (Harvey, Gubaidulina, MacMillan, Pärt, Pott, and Tavener), and others (Adams, Birtwistle, Ton de Leeuw, Ferneyhough, Ustvolskaya, and Vivier) who have created original engagements with the idea of spirituality. Contemporary Music and Spirituality is essential reading for humanities scholars and students working in the areas of musicology, music theory, theology, religious studies, philosophy of culture, and the history of twentieth-century culture.

Author : Dimitri Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011412231

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Inside the Music by Dimitri Ehrlich Pdf

Focusing on the lives and work of several prominent singers and songwriters from a wide range of musical genres, INSIDE THE MUSIC explores the influence spirituality has had on their lives and work. Includes profiles of Jeff Buckley, pop folk musician; Leonard Cohen, singer and poet; Dean Can Dance, world-music band; Philip Glass, composer; Allen Ginsberg and many others. 16 photos.

Author : Marcel Cobussen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754664791

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Thresholds by Marcel Cobussen Pdf

In Thresholds, Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality. The book presents an idea of spirituality in and through music that counters strategies of exclusion and mastering of alterity and connects it to wandering, erring, and roving. Cobussen regards spirituality as a (non)concept that escapes categorization, classification, and linguistic descriptions. Spirituality is a-topological, non-discursive and a manifestation of 'otherness'. And it is precisely music (or better: listening to music) that induces these thoughts. By carefully encountering, analysing, and evaluating certain examples from classical, jazz, pop and world music it is possible to detach spirituality from concepts of otherworldliness and transcendentalism.

Author : Marcel Cobussen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351539111

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Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music by Marcel Cobussen Pdf

In Thresholds Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality. The point of departure is the current movement within contemporary classical music known as New Spiritual Music, with as its main representatives Arvo P John Tavener, and Giya Kancheli. In almost all respects, the musical principles of the new spiritual music seem to be diametrically opposed to those of modernism: repetition and rest versus development and progress, tradition and familiarity versus innovation and experiment, communication versus individualism and conceptualism, tonality versus atonality, and so on. As such, this movement is often considered as part of the much larger complex called postmodernism. Joining in with ideas on spirituality as presented by Michel de Certeau and Mark C. Taylor, Cobussen deconstructs the classification of the 'spiritual dimensions' of music as described above. Thresholds presents an idea of spirituality in and through music that counters strategies of exclusion and mastering of alterity and connects it to wandering, erring, and roving. Using the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, Jean-Fran‘s Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and others, and analysing the music of John Coltrane, the mythical Sirens, Arvo P and The Eagles (to mention a few), Cobussen regards spirituality as a (non)concept that escapes categorization, classification, and linguistic descriptions. Spirituality is a-topological, non-discursive and a manifestation of 'otherness'. And it is precisely music (or better: listening to music) that induces these thoughts: by carefully encountering, analysing, and evaluating certain examples from classical, jazz, pop and world music it is possible to detach spirituality from concepts of otherworldliness and transcendentalism. Thresholds opens a space in which spirituality can be connected to music that is not commonly considered in this light, thereby enriching the ways of approaching and discussing music. In orde

Author : David Webster
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780994895

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Dispirited by David Webster Pdf

Dave Webster’s book is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality makes us confused, apolitical and miserable - whether that spirituality is from conventional religious roots, from a new-age buffet of beliefs, or from some re-imagined ancient system of belief. Looking beyond this dismissal, the book looks towards atheistic existentialism, Theravada Buddhism and political engagement as a means to imagine what a post-spiritual world view could look like. ,

Author : Robin Sylvan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780814798089

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Traces of the Spirit by Robin Sylvan Pdf

Sylvan examines the religious dimensions of popular music subcultures, charting the influence and religious aspects of popular music in mainstream culture today.

Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310208068

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Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh Pdf

This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

Author : Georgina Gregory,Mike Dines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350086944

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Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music by Georgina Gregory,Mike Dines Pdf

This book highlights how the diverse nature of spiritual practices are experienced and manifest through the medium of popular music. At first glance, chapters on Krishnacore, the Rave Church phenomenon and post-punk repertoire of Psychic TV may appear to have little in common; however, this book draws attention to some of the similarities of the nuances of spiritual expression that underpin the lived experience of popular music. As an interdisciplinary volume, the extensive introduction unpacks and clarifies terminology relating to the study of religion and popular music. The cross-disciplinary approach of the book makes it accessible and appealing to scholars of religious studies, cultural studies, popular music studies and theology. Unlike existing collections dealing with popular music and religion that focus on a specific genre, this innovative book offers a range of music and case studies, with chapters written by international contributors.

Author : Ivan Moody
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 3718654245

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Contemporary Music and Religion by Ivan Moody Pdf

Author : Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814766972

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Noise and Spirit by Anthony B. Pinn Pdf

Rap music is often seen as a Black secular response to pressing issues of our time. Yet, like spirituals, the blues, and gospel music, rap has deep connections to African American religious traditions. Noise and Spirit explores the diverse religious dimensions of rap stemming from Islam (including the Nation of Islam and Five Percent Nation), Rastafarianism, and Humanism, as well as Christianity. The volume examines rap’s dialogue with religious traditions, from the ways in which Islamic rap music is used as a method of religious and political instruction to the uses of both the blues and Black women’s rap for considering the distinction between God and the Devil. The first section explores rap’s association with more easily recognizable religious traditions and communities such as Christianity and Islam. The next presents discussions of rap and important spiritual considerations, including on the topic of death. The final unit wrestles with ways to theologize about the relationship between the sacred and the profane in rap.

Author : Andreas Häger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350001497

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Religion and Popular Music by Andreas Häger Pdf

Through in-depth case studies, Religion and Popular Music explores encounters between music, fans and religion. The book examines several popular music artists - including Bob Dylan, Prince and Katy Perry - and looks at the way religion comes into play in their work and personas. Genres explored by contributing authors include country, folk, rock, metal and Electronic Dance Music. Case studies in the book originate from a variety of geographic and cultural contexts, focusing on topics such as nationalism and hard rock in Russia, fan culture in Argentina, and punk and Islam in Indonesia. Chapters engage with the central issue of how global music meets local audiences and practices, and considers how fans as well as religious groups react to the uses of religion in popular music. It also looks at how they make these interactions between popular music and religion components in their own identity, community and practice. Tapping into a vital and lively topic of teaching, research and wider cultural interest, and employing diverse methodologies across musicians, fans and religious groups, this book is an important contribution to the growing field of religion and popular music studies.

Author : Franya J. Berkman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780819571069

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Monument Eternal by Franya J. Berkman Pdf

Long-awaited biography of an African American avant-garde composer Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and Western art music. Her childhood experiences playing for African-American congregations in Detroit, the ecstatic and avant-garde improvisations she performed on the bandstand with her husband John Coltrane, and her religious pilgrimages to India reveal themselves on more than twenty albums of original music for the Impulse and Warner Brothers labels. In the late 1970s Alice Coltrane became a swami, directing an alternative spiritual community in Southern California. Exploring her transformation from Alice McLeod, Detroit church pianist and bebopper, to guru Swami Turiya Sangitananda, Monument Eternal illuminates her music and, in turn, reveals the exceptional fluidity of American religious practices in the second half of the twentieth century. Most of all, this book celebrates the hybrid music of an exceptional, boundary-crossing African-American artist.

Author : Andrew Dell'Antonio
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520269293

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Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy by Andrew Dell'Antonio Pdf

In this volume the author looks at the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing, in the early 17th century.

Author : June Boyce-Tillman
Publisher : Music and Spirituality
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 3034319525

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Experiencing Music - Restoring the Spiritual by June Boyce-Tillman Pdf

This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines various descriptors, looking at the place of faith narratives in different spiritualities.

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520239166

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Creative Spirituality by Robert Wuthnow Pdf

"Creative Spirituality is a fascinating, brilliant, and suggestive book, to be read and appreciated both for its spiritual insights and for the author's astute observations on artistic creativity and spiritual practice. Robert Wuthnow explores the intimate engagements of art and spirituality in their common quests for meaning. This volume represents a substantial contribution to the growing literature on art and religion in the United States and an intelligent appeal to the artist and the truth-seeker in each of us."—Sally M. Promey is author of Painting Religion in Public and coauthor of The Visual Culture of American Religions "Wuthnow's careful listening to the voices of working artists speaking of their work, and his analysis of the rich variety of their experiences, show the universally human, transforming power of creativity. Creative practice reveals itself here as a primary spiritual practice. While some of these artists follow a traditional religious path and make fascinating connections between their working experience and their religious faith others speak directly of spirituality as a discovering of the power of Spirit. Whether religious or not, their voices are witness to the holy power of human creativity and to the mystery in which it leads."—Reverend Donald Schell, St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco "Robert Wuthnow has written a brilliant, insightful exploration of how contemporary artists struggle to express their deepest spiritual yearnings. At a time when the notion of spirituality seems inchoate, artists, writers and musicians can often eloquently articulate the mysterious otherness of our lives. Especially powerful are the personal testimonials which reveal the empowerment of transcendence over alienation and disbelief."—Marci Whitney-Schenck, Publisher and Editor, Christianity and the Arts "Here one finds wonderful stories about artists and of the creative spirituality arising out of their work. Wuthnow goes beyond telling us simply that these are people living at the edges of our culture, suggesting that they are spiritual models for our time—people who cultivate spiritual depth through sustained practice, or doing something that is fresh, expressive, and worthwhile. The book addresses the serious, many-sided aspects of their search—indeed, of our search—for 'moments of transcendence' today."—Wade Clark Roof, J. F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, University of California at Santa Barbara and author of Spiritual Marketplace