Ritual Soundings

Ritual Soundings
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780252051135
ISBN-13 : 0252051130
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Book Synopsis Ritual Soundings by : Sarah Weiss

Download or read book Ritual Soundings written by Sarah Weiss and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike offer lamentations and mockery during wedding rituals. Catholic women of southern Italy perform tarantella on pilgrimages while Muslim Berger girls recite poetry at Moroccan weddings. Around the world, women actively claim agency through performance during such ritual events. These moments, though brief, allow them a rare freedom to move beyond culturally determined boundaries. In Ritual Soundings, Sarah Weiss reads deeply into and across the ethnographic details of multiple studies while offering a robust framework for studying music and world religion. Her meta-ethnography reveals surprising patterns of similarity between unrelated cultures. Deftly blending ethnomusicology, the study of gender in religion, and sacred music studies, she invites ethnomusicologists back into comparative work, offering them encouragement to think across disciplinary boundaries. As Weiss delves into a number of less-studied rituals, she offers a forceful narrative of how women assert agency within institutional religious structures while remaining faithful to the local cultural practices the rituals represent.


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