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Author : Daniel Burgos
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Book Synopsis Rituals and Music in Europe by : Daniel Burgos
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Author : Wojtek Jezierski
Release : 2015
Genre : Europe
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Book Synopsis Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, C. 650-1350 by : Wojtek Jezierski
Download or read book Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, C. 650-1350 written by Wojtek Jezierski. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume draws together contributions from history, archaeology, and the history of religion to offer an in-depth examination of political ritual and its performative and transformative potential across Continental Europe and Scandinavia. Covering the period between c. 650 and 1350, this work takes a theoretical, textual, and practical approach to the study of political ritual, and explores the connections between, and changing functions of, key rituals such as assemblies, feasts, and religious confrontations between pagans and Christians. Taking as a central premise the fact that rituals were not only successful political instruments used to create and maintain order, but were also a hazardous game in which intended strategies could fail, the papers within this volume demonstrate that the outcomes of feasts or court meetings were often highly unpredictable, and a friendly atmosphere could quickly change into a violent clash. By emphasising the conflict-ridden and unpredictable nature of ritual acts, the articles add crucial insights into the meanings, (ab)uses, and interpretations of performances in the Middle Ages. In doing so, they demonstrate that rituals, far from being mere representations of power, also constituted an important mechanism through which the political and religious order could be challenged and transformed.
Author : Edward Muir
Release : 2005-08-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ritual in Early Modern Europe by : Edward Muir
Download or read book Ritual in Early Modern Europe written by Edward Muir. This book was released on 2005-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive 2005 study of rituals in early modern Europe argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time, the body, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world. Edward Muir draws on extensive historical research to emphasize the persistence of traditional Christian ritual practices even as educated elites attempted to privilege reason over passion, textual interpretation over ritual action, and moral rectitude over gaining access to supernatural powers. Edward Muir discusses wide ranging themes such as rites of passage, carnivalesque festivity, the rise of manners, Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the alleged anti-Christian rituals of Jews and witches. This edition examines the impact on the European understanding of ritual from the discoveries of new civilizations in the Americas and missionary efforts in China and adds more material about rituals peculiar to women.
Author : Keith Howard
Release : 2006
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Music and Ritual by : Keith Howard
Download or read book Music and Ritual written by Keith Howard. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Published through Muske, whose purpose is to research, recover, document and conserve the world's ethnomusicological heritage and to disseminate it across a wide audience, the papers in MUSIC AND RITUAL "were first prepared for a panel...at the 2005 annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology....At the conference, it seemed timely to return to how performance informs, illustrates and interpenetrates ritual, without setting a clear, narrow, agenda in our call for papers...[These papers] explore questions raised by the performance of music and movement, and their interrelationships, in artistic practice beyond the European art and popular music canons"--from the Introduction by Keith Howard.
Author : International Council for Traditional Music. Study group on music and dance in Southeastern Europe. Symposium
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe by : International Council for Traditional Music. Study group on music and dance in Southeastern Europe. Symposium
Download or read book Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe written by International Council for Traditional Music. Study group on music and dance in Southeastern Europe. Symposium. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
