Sacred Music and Hindu Religious Experience: From Ancient Roots to the Modern Classical Tradition
Religions, 2019 While music plays a significant role in many of the world’s religions, it is in the Hindu religion that one finds one of the closest bonds between music and religious experience extending for millennia.
Guy L. Beck
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Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2017 OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of instrumental sacred music and sacred music with vocals on the spiritual well-being of bereaved relatives. METHOD This is a randomized clinical trial carried out with family members bereaving the death of loved ones ...
Vladimir Araujo da Silva +4 more
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Sacred Languages of Pop: Rooted Practices in Globalized and Digital French Popular Music
Open Cultural Studies, 2019 Nowadays, popular music artists from a wide range of cultures perform in English alongside other local languages. This phenomenon questions the coexistence of different languages within local music practices. In this article, I argue that we cannot fully
Spanu Michael
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A Choral Meditation: Fusing Past and Present in the Sacred Music of Eoghan Desmond
ReligionsChoral music and the sacred have been intertwined since the Middle Ages. With the increasing secularisation of society, it is notable that the sacred choral canon continues to expand and attract audiences in religious and secular spaces, underlining the ...
Laura Sheils
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"We should not sing of heaven and angels":Western Sacred Music in Soviet Russia [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter examines the changing ways in which Western sacred music was performed in concerts at major cultural centers in Russia during the period 1917–1964.
Fairclough, Pauline
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Sacred Music – a Forbidden Fruit: Musical and Non-musical Ways of Survival
Muzikološki Zbornik, 2015 Prohibition of sacred music during the period of Soviet Latvia was exerted like a syndrome of forbidden fruit, that was breached in the underground way and developed in secret and complicated forms, in which the central is secular music genres’ and ...
Jūlija Jonāne
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Performing the sacred – Aspects of singing and contextualisation in South Africa
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 After an introduction and views on inculturation (i.e. adapting the liturgy to the context within which it is ‘performed’ or the context influencing the liturgy), the focus shifts to ‘incarnation’ and ‘contextualisation’ in a broader sense, to also ...
Elsabé Kloppers
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Music, theology, and space: listening as a way of seeking God
Acta Theologica, 2017 Music, it will be claimed, intones the meaning of being human. In the Christian tradition, music is central to liturgy and worship. From its roots in the New Testament, through its approval or prohibition by the Church Fathers, to the Puritan purges ...
F. England
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TRANSFORMATION OF DOL MUSIC IN THE MUSICALITY OF TABOT RITUAL, BENGKULU CITY
E-Journal of Cultural Studies, 2018 Originally, Dol music was used as means of religious musicality to spread Moslem religion in Bengkulu. As time goes by, through the process of acculturation and assimilation, Dol music becomes a sacred musicality to accompany the ritual procession of ...
Bambang Parmadi +3 more
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Pop stars and idolatry: an investigation of the worship of popular music icons, and the music and cult of Prince. [PDF]
, 2010 Prince is an artist who integrates elements from the sacred into his work. He uses popular iconography to present himself as an icon of consumer culture, as a deified ‘rock god’ worshipped by his fans, and as a preacher leading his audience like a ...
Baty S. Paige +23 more
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