Rituals and Music in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals and Music in Europe write by Daniel Burgos. This book was released on . Rituals and Music in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, C. 650-1350
Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, C. 650-1350 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, C. 650-1350 write by Wojtek Jezierski. This book was released on 2015. Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, C. 650-1350 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Ritual in Early Modern Europe
Ritual in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual in Early Modern Europe write by Edward Muir. This book was released on 2005-08-18. Ritual in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Music and Ritual
Music and Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Ritual write by Keith Howard. This book was released on 2006. Music and Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Musical Ritual in Mexico City
Musical Ritual in Mexico City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Ritual in Mexico City write by Mark Pedelty. This book was released on 2009-06-03. Musical Ritual in Mexico City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City, Mexico's entire musical history is performed every day. "Mexica" percussionists drum and dance to the music of Aztec rituals on the open plaza. Inside the Metropolitan Cathedral, choristers sing colonial villancicos. Outside the National Palace, the Mexican army marching band plays the "Himno Nacional," a vestige of the nineteenth century. And all around the square, people listen to the contemporary sounds of pop, rock, and música grupera. In all, some seven centuries of music maintain a living presence in the modern city. This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and ethnography of musical rituals in the world's largest city. Mark Pedelty details the dominant musical rites of the Aztec, colonial, national, revolutionary, modern, and contemporary eras, analyzing the role that musical ritual played in governance, resistance, and social change. His approach is twofold. Historical chapters describe the rituals and their functions, while ethnographic chapters explore how these musical forms continue to resonate in contemporary Mexican society. As a whole, the book provides a living record of cultural continuity, change, and vitality.
