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OverviewMusic 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 in Palau distinguishes between meaning(s) and meaningfulness in Palauan music-making. These are not binary phenomena, but deeply intertwined. However, unlike meaning(s), 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 in Palau thus seeks to draw the reader closer to the holistic complexity of music-making both in Palau and more generally. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Birgit AbelsPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9789463725125ISBN 10: 9463725121 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 14 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Music Worlding in Palau: An Introduction Meaningfulness Music Worlding Intensity Atmospheres This Book Music Worlding in Palau Music Worlding in Palau: The Background 1 Latmikaik’s Children and Their Music Palau North Atlantic narratives of Palauan history Meaningfulness Schmitz on Meaningfulness Surfaceless: Beyond the Binaries Musical Meaning | Musical Meaningfulness Musical Meaningfulness and Atmospheres 2 Vaguely Specific: Resonant Historicity with Chesóls Chesols Meaningfulness Suggestions of Motion Sound’s History Lives on Intensity: A Closer Look Musical Meaningfulness as Latently Historical Conclusion 3 Listening with the Dancing Body: Ruk and Movement’s Incipiency A Sense of Klebelau: Going through the Motions The Body Complex and Sound Schmitz and the Threshold Preacceleration | Suggestions of Motion The Dance of the Not-Yet in New Phenomenological Perspective: mSuggestions of Motion in Palauan Ruk Body percussion Group shouts Rhythmic layering and densification Conclusion: The Body in Sound and Motion 4 “Rak, Where Is He Now?” Presence | Present Present, Presence, Meaningfulness Omengeredakl Sense Effects | Presence Effects Music, Meaning, and Meaningfulness Meaningfully Present 5 Resonance: Co-Becoming with Sound Ngerulmud 2006: The Mother Bat Resonance Resonance: Conceptual Implications Revisiting the Mother Bat Conclusion 6 Of Magic and Meaningfulness : Chelitákl Rechuódel and the Felt-bodily Dimensions of Spiritual Practice Magic | Olai Present-day Magic Magically Meaningful Conclusion Glossary Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBirgit Abels is professor of cultural musicology at the University of Göttingen. She is the author of Sounds of Articulating Identity: Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau, Micronesia and Principal Investigator on the European Research Council project Sound Knowledge. Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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