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- Book Title
- Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Po
- ISBN
- 9780226730066
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226730069
ISBN-13
9780226730066
eBay Product ID (ePID)
58513
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
418 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Music and Trance : a Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession
Publication Year
1985
Subject
Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), General, Instruction & Study / Theory
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Science, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
85-001107
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
154.4
Table Of Content
Preface to the American Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Part One 1. Trance and Possession 2. Music and Possession 3. Music, Shamanism, Mediumship, Exorcism 4. The Strange Mechanism Part Two 5. Music and Trance among the Greeks 6. The Renaissance and Opera 7. Music and Trance among the Arabs 8. Conclusion Discography Filmography 1. Subject Index 2. Index of Religions, Sects, Divinities, and Religious Figures 3. Index of Ethnic Groups and Places 4. Index of Authors, Individuals, and Characters
Synopsis
Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music-but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of meaning of their cultural context. Rouget rigorously examines a worldwide corpus of data from ethnographic literature, but he also draws on the Bible, his own fieldwork in West Africa, and the writings of Plato, Ghazzali, and Rousseau. To organize this immense store of information, he develops a typology of trance based on symbolism and external manifestations. He outlines the fundamental distinctions between trance and ecstasy, shamanism and spirit possession, and communal and emotional trance. Music is analyzed in terms of performers, practices, instruments, and associations with dance. Each kind of trance draws strength from music in different ways at different points in a ritual, Rouget concludes. In possession trance, music induces the adept to identify himself with his deity and allows him to express this identification through dance. Forcefully rejecting pseudo-science and reductionism, Rouget demystifies the so-called theory of the neurophysiological effects of drumming on trance. He concludes that music's physiological and emotional effects are inseparable from patterns of collective representations and behavior, and that music and trance are linked in as many ways as there are cultural structures., Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music--but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of meaning of their cultural context. Rouget rigorously examines a worldwide corpus of data from ethnographic literature, but he also draws on the Bible, his own fieldwork in West Africa, and the writings of Plato, Ghazzali, and Rousseau. To organize this immense store of information, he develops a typology of trance based on symbolism and external manifestations. He outlines the fundamental distinctions between trance and ecstasy, shamanism and spirit possession, and communal and emotional trance. Music is analyzed in terms of performers, practices, instruments, and associations with dance. Each kind of trance draws strength from music in different ways at different points in a ritual, Rouget concludes. In possession trance, music induces the adept to identify himself with his deity and allows him to express this identification through dance. Forcefully rejecting pseudo-science and reductionism, Rouget demystifies the so-called theory of the neurophysiological effects of drumming on trance. He concludes that music's physiological and emotional effects are inseparable from patterns of collective representations and behavior, and that music and trance are linked in as many ways as there are cultural structures.
LC Classification Number
ML3920.R813 1985
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