Music and Trance
By:Gilbert Rouget
Published on 1985-12-15 by University of Chicago Press
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.
This Book was ranked at 20 by Google Books for keyword vier sonaten i c moll a moll.
Book ID of Music and Trance's Books is NzT90FcmrI4C, Book which was written byGilbert Rougethave ETAG "rjZg2HNXzLY"
Book which was published by University of Chicago Press since 1985-12-15 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780226730066 and ISBN 10 Code is 0226730069
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "395 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryMusic
This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true
Book Preview
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar