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Revival and Reconciliation - Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity (Hardcover)
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Revival and Reconciliation - Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
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Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of
Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred
journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers,
the politics and power sounded by the vox populi all have joined in
counterpoint to shape Europe s historical longue duree. Drawing
upon three decades of research in European sacred music, Philip V.
Bohlman calls for a reexamination of European modernity in the
twenty-first century, a modernity shaped no less by canonic
religious and musical practices than by the proliferation of belief
systems that today more than ever respond to the diverse belief
systems that engender the New Europe. In contrast to most studies
of sacred musical practice in European history, with their emphasis
on the musical repertories and ecclesiastical practices at the
center of society, Bohlman turns our attention to individual and
marginalized communities and to the collectives of believers to
whose lives meaning accrues upon sounding the sacred together. In
the historical chapters that open Revival and Reconciliation,
Bohlman examines the genesis of modern history in the convergence
and conflict that lie at the heart of the Abrahamic faiths Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam. Critical to the meaning of these religions
to Europe, Bohlman argues, has been their capacity to mobilize both
sacred journey and social action, which enter the everyday lives of
Europeans through folk religion, pilgrimage, and politics, the
subjects of the second half of his study. The closing sections then
cross the threshold from history into modernity, above all that of
the New Europe, with its return to religion through revival and
reconciliation. Based on an extensive ethnographic engagement with
the sacred landscapes and sites of conflict in twenty-first-century
Europe, Bohlman calls in his final chapters for new ways of hearing
the silenced voices and the full chorus of sacred music in our
contemporary world. Ethnomusicologists from different traditions as
well as scholars of religious studies and the history of modern
Europe will find Revival and Reconciliation a fascinating
exploration of the connections between sacred music and the role it
plays in the formations of the modern self."
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