North American Indigenous song, the sacred and the senses
How does music shape the experience of the sacred? This chapter looks at two genres of North American Indigenous singing - drum song performed at powwows and gospel singing associated with funerary wakes - and it explores music's capacity for mediating sacred presences and processes.
| Published in: | Body and religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Equinox Publishing
[2018]
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| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-223 |
| Further subjects: | B
North American Indigenous peoples
B Hearing B Song B powwow B Music B funerary ritual |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | How does music shape the experience of the sacred? This chapter looks at two genres of North American Indigenous singing - drum song performed at powwows and gospel singing associated with funerary wakes - and it explores music's capacity for mediating sacred presences and processes. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.36490 |