Indigenous religious musics /

Indigenous religious musics / edited by Karen Ralls-Macleod and Graham Harvey. - Aldershot ; Burlington, USA : Ashgate, c2000. - xi, 225 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) - [SOAS musicology series] . - SOAS musicology series. .

Series statement on jacket.

Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. [211]-213), and index.

Te Kaha o te Waiata - the power of music: Maori oral traditions illustrated by E Tipu e Rea / Peter Mataira -- From here into eternity : power and transcendence in Australian Aboriginal music / David H. Turner -- Sacred and profane : music in Korean shaman rituals / Keith Howard -- Maasai musics, rituals and identities / Malcolm Floyd -- Appeasing the spirits : music, possession, divination and healing in Busoga, Eastern Uganda / Peter R. Cooke -- Chasing off God : spirit possesion in a sharing society / Jan C. Platvoet -- Sounding the sacred : music as sacred site / June Boyce-Tillman --Emerging Amazonian peoples : myth-chants / Guilherme Werlang -- Structure into practice : a theory of Inuit music / Christopher G. Trott -- The music of the Mescalero Apache girls' puberty ceremony / Anne Dhu McLucas.

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Church music.
Indigenous peoples--Music--History and criticism.
Indigenous peoples--Religion.
Música cristiana.
Pueblos indígenas--Música--Historia y crítica.
Pueblos indígenas--Religión.

ML 2900 / I39 2000

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