The Untidy Playground: An Irish Congolese Case Study in Sonic Encounters with the Sacred Stranger

This paper explores the proposal that music, and particularly singing, has unique properties that render it amenable to encounters with “the other” or the sacred stranger. Drawing on the deconstructionist works of Kristeva and Derrida, as well as the postmodern hermeneutics of Kearney and Caputo, it...

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Published in:Religions
Main Author: Phelan, Helen 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2017]
In: Religions
Further subjects:B Singing
B Ireland
B Migration
B Music
B asylum-seeker
B sonority
B Refugee
B the Congo
B Creativity
B the sacred
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