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OverviewThis book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, The Extravagance of Music sets out a more expansive and optimistic vision, which suggests that there is an ‘excess’ or ‘extravagance’ in both music and the divine that can open up revelatory and transformative possibilities. In Part I, David Brown argues that even in the absence of words, classical instrumental music can disclose something of the divine nature that allows us to speak of an experience analogous to contemplative prayer. In Part II, Gavin Hopps contends that, far from being a wasteland of mind-closing triviality, popular music frequently aspires to elicit the imaginative engagement of the listener and is capable of evoking intimations of transcendence. Filled with fresh and accessible discussions of diverse examples and forms of music, this ground-breaking book affirms the disclosive and affective capacities of music, and shows how it can help to awaken, vivify, and sustain a sense of the divine in everyday life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Brown , Gavin HoppsPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9783030063030ISBN 10: 3030063038 Pages: 325 Publication Date: 06 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION: AN ART OPEN TO THE DIVINE The Extravagance of Music Ancestral Conceptions of Music The Pythagorean Tradition The Orphic Tradition The Extravagance of the Divine Prospectus Part One: God and Classical Sounds 2. A GENEROUS EXCESS The Divine at Work beyond Scripture The Possibility of Music as Encounter Types of Aesthetic Experience and Their Relation to Religion Competing Types of Aesthetic Evaluation and Experience Religious Perspectives Interacting with Aesthetic Criteria Music in the Context of Words: Setting Divine Encounters to Music Interim Conclusion 3. TYPES OF EXTRAVAGANCE Order and the Music of the Spheres: Haydn, Mozart, and Bach A Sense of Transcendence: Beethoven and Led Zeppelin Divine Immanence: Beethoven, Sibelius and Debussy, and the Creed’s Incarnatus Divine Immanence in Nature Immanence and the Incarnatus est of the Creed The Mystery of the Divine Life: Minimalism, Bruckner, Liszt and Franck Transcending Time Serenity, Majesty, Ecstatic Joy Specifics: Coltrane on Generosity, Schubert on Suffering, Massenet on Suicide 4. DISCOVERING GOD IN MUSIC’S EXCESS Giving Sense to the Encounter From the Human Side: Knowledge and Emotion From the Divine Side: Developing a Philosophy of Presence Restraints on Such Experience Part Two: Popular Music and the Opening up of Religious Experience 5. CULTURED DESPISERS The Cloistral Refuge of Music Pop Pollution God’s Love of Adverbs The Wonder of Minor Experiences Dancing ‘with’ and Dancing ‘at’ What Has Graceland to Do with Jerusalem? Theological Imperialism Aesthetic Hospitality The Wandering of the Semantic One Size Fits All Too Much Heaven? Rehabilitating Lightness The World ‘in front of’ the Text The Spiritual Assets of Tackiness Cultural Pessimism 6. SPILT RELIGION The Listener’s Share Unheard Melodies Only Connect Jordan: The Comeback The Word in the Desert Post-Secular Popular Music The In-Between The Impure Sacred Oxymoronic Postures Metaphysical Shuddering Ontological Exuberance Ludic Avowal Subjunctive Explorations Being in Darkness The Interlocuted Listener Secular Forms and Sacred Effects Musical Hyperbole The Moment out of Time The Swarming Forms of the Banal Homeward Bound Coda: Being Opened 7. CONCLUSIONReviewsAuthor InformationDavid Brown is Emeritus Professor of Theology, Aesthetics and Culture, and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews, UK. Gavin Hopps is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA), UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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