Music, history, and the sacred in South Asia

Jones, Jaime

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“…Influenced by the legitimacy given to orientalist writers, these authors each represented versions of musical knowledge and authority as the norm to suit their diverse political aims (cf. Farrell 1997;Bakhle 2005;Neuman 2004;Jones 2013;Clayton 2013). Musicians were-and areoften not willing or able to express their musical practices on the terms, and within the categories, music scholars have used for their academic pursuits.…”

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“…As recent critical studies have illustrated, from at least the seventeenth century onwards, such travels have been entangled with processes of colonization and political decolonization, nation forming, Hinduization, caste formation, and cultural diplomacy (cf. Farrel 1997;Bakhle 2005; Neuman 2004Neuman , 2009Neuman , 2012Lubach 2006;Jones 2013;Wade 2013). These dynamics include a "canonization of a music theory based on … rāga" intertwined with a canonization of "musician lineages, gharānās" (Bohlman 2013a: 3).…”

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“…Following this, I selectively delineate fragmented remains that, I argue, continue to resonate in contemporary knowledge practices. I examine selected primary sources paired with recent critical historiographies on the topic (Farrell 1997;Kobayashi 2003;Neuman 2004;Bakhle 2005;Lubach 2006;Bor 2006;Abels 2010;Clayton 2013;Jones 2013;Wade 2013) Histories of musical encounter have been instrumental in both creating Otherness as well as violence against these Others (cf. Bohlman 2013: 16).…”

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“…Repeating and reinforcing each other, these ideas "also lingered as a historical discourse in Indian writing in the twentieth century.… The glorification of the Brahmanic tradition resulted in an often-repeated, uncritical historical summary" (Wade 2013: 146). As Neuman (2004), Bakhle (2005), Clayton (2013), and Jones (2013) have illustrated, Wade's unspecific grouping together of texts as "Indian writing," might benefit from some nuance. Namely, its goals and ideological underpinnings were varied and the notions of listening they took for granted were context specific.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The writings of several scholars are regarded as central to pre-independence historical transformations in Hindustani classical music (Nayar 1989;Farrell 1997;Trasoff 1999;Neuman 2004;Bakhle 2005;Jones 2013), including those of Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande and Sourindro Mohun Tagore (1840Tagore ( -1914. Historiographic work has already been published on the lives and (musical) loves of these musicologists, often in specific relation to questions of colonial mimicry, de-colonization, and nationalism.…”

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confidence: 99%

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mind tends to make and from the very beginning onwards have given me the feeling that you have complete faith in what I am doing. This gave me the courage to write this dissertation and sometimes lean towards trusting myself, peculiar jolts included. For being an inspiring combination of strength, warmth, and intellectual curiosity, I thank my second supervisor Prof.Dr. Regina Bendix. Your dedication to staying close to ethnographic material encouraged me to keep an intimate relationship with my data. Your openness about vulnerability inspired me to include my doubts, weaknesses, and confusion in this thesis. My third reader Prof. Dr. Andreas Waczkat, I thank for his helpful comments and stimulating questions in response to my presentations of parts of this work. These stimulated me to keep rethinking my own argument.I also thank my interlocutors, who spent (in some cases large amounts of) time with me, answered my many questions, were willing to chat, gossip, cook, eat, hang out, discuss music, practice together, and allowed me to listen to their teaching, performing, and practicing. You invited me into your lives, homes, and some of you into your hearts. In approximate order of appearances, I thank: Ken Zuckerman and his students, Daniel Bradley and his students, Swapan Chaudhuri and his students, Laurent Aubert, Felix van Lamsweerde, Wim van der Meer,

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Drunken snakes and sober owls: ancient authors on the relationship between animals and wine

Kostuch

2022

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Aims In the article, ancient concepts linking animals and wine are discussed. This paper provides a description of animals that in antiquity were considered to be especially fond of grapes and wine, as well as animals that were, for various reasons, given wine to drink by humans, and animals that in ancient literature had an averse association with wine. In the paper, the author attempts to answer the following questions, what was the conceptual framework for the tales about drunk animals? In what circumstances were observations of animals becoming inebriated conducted? Which animal species were considered as most susceptible to the effects of wine? Last, was wine believed to affect animals and humans in a similar way? Methods Ancient literature provides a set of extant information about animals that willingly become inebriated with grapes or are given wine by humans, which deserves a separate analysis. The ancient authors commonly interspersed narration with information about the animals and invoked personal experiences of contact with the described animal and information obtained from those who had the opportunity to conduct ‘zoological’ observations or even medical experiments. Results There is a large group of animals that appear in ancient accounts consuming alcohol in the form of fermented fruit and wine. The ancients held the mostly incorrect belief that snakes had an enormous predilection for wine; moreover, contemporary research confirms that, as the ancients rightly observed, insects and birds do display a fondness for fermented fruit and wine. It was correctly observed that an excess of wine induced extreme states, such as sleepiness and aggression in animals, in a manner similar to humans. Conclusions Accounts in ancient literature show a close association between animals and wine existed among the Greeks and Romans.

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Music and Spirituality

2024

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The composer Sir James MacMillan has often referred to music as ‘the most spiritual of the arts’, and for many people, regardless of religious affiliation, this rings true. In listening to music, we are drawn to dimensions of human experience beyond the material. This collection brings together leading scholars from various disciplines – including Christian theology, musicology, and psychology and neuroscience – to interrogate the intimate relationship between music and spirituality. Organised in three parts – theological approaches, empirical methods, and Christian worship – the volume covers a vibrant array of topics. From examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the profile of contemporary worship to investigating the spiritual effects of bodily positioning in liturgical spaces, from exploring spiritual experience through heart and breathing activity, electrodermal activity, and saliva samples to comparing the spiritual experiences of British Methodists with Welsh sporting fans, these essays attend to the lived reality of people’s perceived spiritual experiences through music. This collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the growing field of Christian theology and music, and will serve as a cornerstone for future research at the intersection of theology, music, and psychology and neuroscience. It will also appeal to anyone curious about why music consistently, across cultures, occupies a unique space bridging the material and spiritual dimensions of human life.

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Music, history, and the sacred in South Asia

Cited by 24 publications

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Listening Out for Sangīt Encounters

Listening Out for Sangīt Encounters

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