Engelhardt, Jeffers - Resounding Transcendence

Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking volume exploring how sacred music effects religious and social transitions. It covers Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe.

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CONTENTS

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Resounding Transcendence - An Introduction - Philip V. Bohlman and Jeffers
Engelhardt
PART 1 Liturgy, Performance Healing
1 Ensnare the Thief in the House of the Wind: Negotiating Musical Routes of B?ul-ness
Bertie Kibreah
2 Transcending Boundaries: Javanese Wayang Kulit without the Shadows
Sarah Weiss
3 Variations for New Themes: Recent Liturgical Developments of the Major Buddhist Festivals in Taiwan
Pi-yen Chen
4 Voicing the Between in Tunisian S?amb?l?
Richard C. Jankowsky
PART 2 Culture, Identity, Soceity
5 Sounds Transcendent: Gospel Music and the Negotiation of Proximity in Trinidad
Timothy Rommen
6 New Christian Music in Indonesia: Inculturation in Transition
Marzanna Poplawska
7 Transforming Christian Music, Transforming Social Identity in South India
Zoe C. Sherinian
PART 3 Media and Technology, Transmission and Transformation
8 Technology and the Transmission of Oral Tradition in the Contemporary Jewish Community
Jeffrey A. Summit
9 Music, Media, Message: Transitions in Contemporary American Evangelical Music
Stephen A. Marini
PART 4 Europe, Secularity, Revival
10 Sacred Poetics and Musical Politics in Post-Secular Europe
Philip V. Bohlman
11 Arvo Part and the Idea of a Christian Europe: The Musical Effects and Affects of Post-Ideological Religion
Jeffers Engelhardt
12 Byzantine Blossom: The Monastic Revival of Orthodox Chant at Mount Athos
Tore Tvarno Lind
Bibliography
Index