Music & Ritual: Bridging Material & Living Cultures

by Mark Howell (Editor), Raquel Jimenez (Editor), Rupert Till (Editor)

Overview

The ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology was founded in the early 1980s by Ellen Hickmann, John Blacking, Mantle Hood and Cajsa S. Lund. This is the first volume of the new anthology series published by the study group, turning to the topic of music and religion in past cultures. Each volume of the series is composed of concise case studies, bringing together the world's foremost researchers on a particular subject, reflecting the wide scope of music-archaeological research world-wide. The series draws in perspectives from a range of different disciplines, including newly emerging fields such as archaeoacoustics, but particularly encouraging both music-archaeological and ethnomusicological perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783944415116
Publisher:	Ekho Verlag
Publication date:	12/31/2013
Series:	Publications of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology , #1
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

The Round-Bodied Lute (Ruan) and the Ideal of the 'Cultivated Gentleman' in Fourth- to Eighth-Century Chinese Funerary Arts: A Preliminary Study - Ingrid Furniss / Divinized Instruments and Divine Communication in Mesopotamia - John C. Franklin / Sounds for Gods, Sounds for Humans: Triton Shell Horns in Phoenician and Punic Contexts from the Western Mediterranean - Antonio M. Saez Romero, Jose M. Gutierrez Lopez / Music and Death: Razors, Stelae and Divinities in the Punic Mediterranean - Agnes Garcia-Ventura, Mireia Lopez-Bertran / Paestum: Ritual Music in Honour of the Dead - Daniela Castaldo / The Archaeoacoustics of a Sixth-Century Christian Structure: San Vitale, Ravenna - David J. Knight / Acoustics, Architecture, and Instruments in Ancient Chavin de Huantar, Peru: An Integrative, Anthropological Approach to Archaeoacoustics and Music Archaeology - Miriam A. Kolar / The Flight of the Sorcerers: Sound, Power and Hallucinogens in Wari Expansion Strategies during the Middle Horizon, Peru (ca. AD 500-900) - Monica Gudemos / Membrane Drums as Cosmic Symbols and Shamanic Portals in the Shell Art of Spiro, a Mississippian Mound Site in Oklahoma - James A. Rees, Jr. / Ethnoarchaeomusicology: Social Reproduction, Music (Sound Production) and Ideology in the Rituals of Alutiiq and Yup'ik Societies - Jesus Salius Guma / Sound and Ritual in Levantine Art: A Preliminary Study - Margarita Diaz-Andreu, Carlos Garcia Benito / Vaccean Rattles: Toys or Magic Protectors? - Carlos Sanz Minguez, Fernando Romero Carnicero, Roberto De Pablo Martinez, Cristina Gorriz Ganan / The Ritual Significance of the Scandinavian Bronze Age Lurs: An Examination Based on Ethnographic Analogies - Gjermund Kolltveit / A Shaman Drum Hammer from the Medieval City of Turku, Finland - Riitta Rainio / Representations of Dance on Late-Medieval Bosnian Gravestones - Zdravko Blaekovi? / Ritual and Symbolic Aspects of the Midwinter Horn in the Netherlands - Annemies Tamboer / The Return of Ritual: Sacred Popular Music Cultures and Cults - Rupert Till