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Record Nr.

UNINA9910889700903321

Autore

Lorea Carola Erika <1987->

Titolo

Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North : Senses, Media and Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

1-04-080089-0

90-485-5475-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 pages)

Collana

Global Asia Series

Altri autori (Persone)

HackettRosalind I. J

Disciplina

204

Soggetti

MUSIC / Ethnomusicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Audiovisual samples -- List of Illustrations, (Verse) Samples and Captions -- Introduction: The Potential of a Sonic Turn. Toward an Acoustemology of the Post-Secula -- 1 Speaking in Tongues in Comparative Contexts and their Digital Soundscapes -- 2 Sonic Ways to Embodied Remembrance: Sufi dhikr in an Italian Roma camp -- 3 Aural Auras of Inner Sounds: Conch Shells, Ritual Instruments, and Devotional Bodies -- 4 Sounding Pain: Public-Private Aspects of Shi‘a Women’s Sonic Practices in Muharram -- 5 Sounds Electronic: New Sonic Mediations of Gender and Spiritual Empowerment -- 6 Sounding Remembrance, Voicing Mourning: Material, Ethical, and Gendered Productions of a New “Voice” in Shah Jo Rāg -- 7 Sonic Gendering of Ritual Spaces -- 8 Sounding Resilience and Resistance: Tarana Songs of Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia -- 9 Festival as Ritual and Ritual in Festival: Sounding “Exotic Borderlands” in Northern Taiwan -- 10 Music as Epistemic Bulwark in West Bengal -- 11 The Power and the Politics of Embodying Dancehall: Reconciling Sonic Affect and the Religious Self in Singapore -- 12 Performing vs. Recording: The Sound of Modern Bali -- 13 Amplified Waves: The Politics of Religious Sound in Indonesia and Beyond -- 14 A Theory of Ritual Polyphony in Chinese Religious Performances -- 15 The Ensoundments of the Materially Ethereal in Indigenous Riau (Sumatra) -- 16 Bodies with Songs: The Sounds and



Politics of Interstitial Lyrics in Bengali Devotional Performance -- Afterword: Sonic Materiality, Religion, and Non-Religion -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound and various sonic ontologies to usher in a more inclusive global anthro-history of religious sounds. This edited volume implements a “sonic turn” in the study of religion by engaging with a diversity of auditory, musical, and embodied practices. Dislodging the Global North as the main point of reference for studies on religious sound, this volume proposes an acoustemology of the post-secular with an emphasis on Asia as method. Unsettling and expanding existing discussions on senses, media, and power, editors Carola E. Lorea and Rosalind I. J. Hackett present religious sounds as co-creating subjectivities and collectivities that coalesce around audible aesthetic formations. This volume demonstrates that religious sounds are not only produced by certain religious traditions but also produce communities, shaping the self and sensitivity of those who participate.