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Overview"Singing the Right Way enters the world of Orthodox Christianity in Estonia to explore musical style in worship, cultural identity, and social imagination. Through both ethnographic and historical chapters, author Jeffers Engelhardt reveals how Orthodox Estonians give voice to the religious absolute in secular society. Based on a decade of fieldwork, Singing the Right Way traces the sounds of Orthodoxy in Estonia through the Russian Empire, interwar national independence, the Soviet-era, and post-Soviet integration into the European Union. Approaching Orthodoxy through local understandings of correct practice and correct belief, Engelhardt shows how religious knowledge, national identity, and social transformation illuminate how to ""sing the right way"" and thereby realize the fullness of Estonians' Orthodox Christian faith in context of everyday, secular surroundings. Singing the Right Way is an innovative model of how the musical poetics of contemporary religious forms are rooted in both consistent sacred tradition and contingent secular experience. This landmark study is sure to be an essential text for scholars studying the ethnomusicology of religion." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffers Engelhardt (Associate Professor Anthropology of Music, Associate Professor Anthropology of Music, Amherst College, Amherst, MA)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.547kg ISBN: 9780199332120ISBN 10: 0199332126 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 15 January 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Table of Contents About the Companion Website Track Listing Maps Introduction Part 1 Chapter 1 - Orthodoxy in Estonia, Estonian Orthodoxy Chapter 2 - Right Singing: The Voice of Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy Chapter 3 - ""Today is an important day here, the birthday of our own religion"": Festivity and the Secular Enchantments of Right Singing Part 2 Chapter 4 - ""Every bird has its own song"": Congregational Singing and the Making of Estonian Orthodoxy Chapter 5 - Songs of Commemoration and Continuity Part 3 Chapter 6 - ""Life is so simple to live when the corridor you are to walk down has already been made"": Byzantification and Conversion at the Cathedral of Saint Simeon and the Prophetess Hanna Chapter 7 - ""We are people of the country, but we worship and Russian-type God"": Singing the Right Way in Setomaa Epilogue Appendix Bibliography"ReviewsSinging the Right Way is a cutting-edge ethnography opening new areas of research on the stylistics of music in Orthodox Estonia. This book will quickly assume pride of place on many bookshelves. Gregory Barz, Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University Engelhardt contributes a detailed ethnography of Estonian Orthodox singing to further our understanding of music and religion in a post-socialist European context. It highlights the importance of singing in liturgical experience and charts musical, religious and political transitions. Tina K. Ramnarine, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London The book is handsomely produced in all respects, filling a gap with enthusiasm about its subject. Musical Times Engelhardt has studied Estonian Orthodox singing with the utmost care and dedication, including, significantly, the lived faith of Orthodox believers the everyday rituals that Orthodox Christians in Estonia practice. Magically, Engelhardt's work makes the transformations of congregations and singing in the Orthodox Church of Estonia visible and audible to readers, opening up the different worlds and ideologies of a small community under a microscope's lens. Andreas Kalkun, Res Musica Engelhardt does excellent work in analysing the secular enchantment of Orthodoxy, effected by national ideologies and identities and political endeavours, and the reflexivity of identity and singing the right way at different historical and political moments. Jooa Sotejeff-Wilson, Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music Singing the Right Way is a cutting-edge ethnography opening new areas of research on the stylistics of music in Orthodox Estonia. This book will quickly assume pride of place on many bookshelves. Gregory Barz, Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University Engelhardt contributes a detailed ethnography of Estonian Orthodox singing to further our understanding of music and religion in a post-socialist European context. It highlights the importance of singing in liturgical experience and charts musical, religious and political transitions. Tina K. Ramnarine, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London The book is handsomely produced in all respects, filling a gap with enthusiasm about its subject. Musical Times Engelhardt has studied Estonian Orthodox singing with the utmost care and dedication, including, significantly, the lived faith of Orthodox believers the everyday rituals that Orthodox Christians in Estonia practice. Magically, Engelhardt's work makes the transformations of congregations and singing in the Orthodox Church of Estonia visible and audible to readers, opening up the different worlds and ideologies of a small community under a microscope's lens. Andreas Kalkun, Res Musica Singing the Right Way is a cutting-edge ethnography opening new areas of research on the stylistics of music in Orthodox Estonia. This book will quickly assume pride of place on many bookshelves. -- Gregory Barz, Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University Engelhardt contributes a detailed ethnography of Estonian Orthodox singing to further our understanding of music and religion in a post-socialist European context. It highlights the importance of singing in liturgical experience and charts musical, religious and political transitions. --Tina K. Ramnarine, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London Engelhardt has studied Estonian Orthodox singing with the utmost care and dedication, including, significantly, the lived faith of Orthodox believers the everyday rituals that Orthodox Christians in Estonia practice. Magically, Engelhardt's work makes the transformations of congregations and singing in the Orthodox Church of Estonia visible and audible to readers, opening up the different worlds and ideologies of a small community under a microscope's lens. * Andreas Kalkun, Res Musica * The book is handsomely produced in all respects, filling a gap with enthusiasm about its subject. * Musical Times * Engelhardt contributes a detailed ethnography of Estonian Orthodox singing to further our understanding of music and religion in a post-socialist European context. It highlights the importance of singing in liturgical experience and charts musical, religious and political transitions. * Tina K. Ramnarine, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London * Singing the Right Way is a cutting-edge ethnography opening new areas of research on the stylistics of music in Orthodox Estonia. This book will quickly assume pride of place on many bookshelves. * Gregory Barz, Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University * Engelhardt does excellent work in analysing the secular enchantment of Orthodoxy, effected by national ideologies and identities and political endeavours, and the reflexivity of identity and singing the right way at different historical and political moments. * Jooa Sotejeff-Wilson, Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music * In this remarkable book, with its abundant musical scores, photographs and audio recordings on a companion website, ethnomusicologist Jeffers Engelhardt enables us to listen in to the wide diapason of sounds and styles which have come to be considered 'right singing' in Orthodox communities in Estonia... The book is intensely human and by the time we come to the end, many of the singers and choir leaders we encounter have almost become our friends, as they obviously have for the author. * Alison Ruth Kolosova, Sobornost/ Eastern Churches Review * Author InformationJeffers Engelhardt is an Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Oberlin College, his research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. His second book, a co-edited volume titled Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual, will also be published by Oxford University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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