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1ST ED. |
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1 online resource |
| Summary |
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness' is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music?s meaningfulness - that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, escapes interpretive techniques. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research alongside Pacific Islander and neo-phenomenological conceptual frameworks, 'Music Worlding' distinguishes between meaning(s) and meaningfulness in Palauan music-making. These are not binary phenomena, but deeply intertwined. However, unlike meaning, meaningfulness to a significant extent suspends language and is thus often prematurely considered ineffable. The book proposes a broader understanding of how the performing arts give rise to a sense of meaningfulness whose felt-bodily affectivity is pivotal to music-making and lived realities. 'Music Worlding' thus seeks to draw the reader closer to the holistic complexity of music-making both in Palau and more generally. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Music Worlding in Palau: An Introduction -- 1. Latmikaik's Children and Their Music -- 2. Vaguely Specific: Resonant Historicity with Chesóls -- 3. Listening with the Dancing Body: Ruk and Movement's Incipiency -- 4. "Rak, Where Is He Now?" Presence / Present -- 5. Resonance: Co-Becoming with Sound -- 6. Of Magic and Meaningfulness : Chelitákl Rechuódel and the Feltbodily Dimensions of Spiritual Practice -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Music -- Palau -- History.
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Performing arts -- Palau.
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Musique -- Belau -- Histoire.
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Arts du spectacle -- Belau.
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Theory of music and musicology.
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Music: styles and genres.
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MUSIC / Ethnomusicology.
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Music
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Performing arts
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Palau https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxMjXCX3RQCFG4mVd3fbd
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History
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| ISBN |
9048550513 (electronic bk.) |
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9789048550517 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000071582786 |
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AU@ 000073932913 |
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