Music Worlding in Palau : Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness

• Autore: Abels Birgit
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Theatre studies; Theory of music and musicology
• Soggetto non controllato: Music, Micronesia, atmospheres, Pacific Islands, performing arts
• Sommario/riassunto: Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music's meaningfulness-that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, escapes interpretive techniques. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research alongside Pacific Islander and neo-phenomenological conceptual frameworks, Music Worlding distinguishes between meaning(s) and meaningfulness in Palauan music-making. These are not binary phenomena, but deeply intertwined. However, unlike meaning, meaningfulness to a significant extent suspends language and is thus often prematurely considered ineffable. The book proposes a broader understanding of how the performing arts give rise to a sense of meaningfulness whose felt-bodily affectivity is pivotal to music-making and lived realities. Music Worlding thus seeks to draw the reader closer to the holistic complexity of music-making both in Palau and more generally.
• Altri titoli varianti: Music Worlding in Palau
• Titolo autorizzato: Music Worlding in Palau
• ISBN: 1-003-70022-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910556101303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II