Indigenous Religious Musics (SOAS Musicology Series) [Hardcover]

A welcome and innovative addition to a growing list of publications on indigenous religions...a genuinely multi-disciplinary study

Music can and does change our perception of our "selves" and our world. This text concerns particular musics of particular people at particular times or events. It interfaces music and religious traditions, using multi- and interdisciplinary approaches. The book considers what the terms "indigenous", "religious" and "music" actually mean with regards to this study. It includes information on recordings and each chapter takes a different approach to the musical event that occurs within it.

KAREN RALLS-MacLEOD, PhD, FSA, medieval religious historian, was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh for six years and is now based in Oxford, England, conducting further specialised research att he Bate Collection of Musical Instruments. Her publications include The Templars and the Grail (Quest Books 2003), The Quest for the Celtic Key (2002), and Music and the Celtic Otherworld (Edinburgh University Press/St Martin's Press, New York, 2000)

GRAHAM HARVEY is Reader in Religious Studies at King Alfred's College, Winchester. His publications include The True Israel (Brill, 1996), Listening People, Speaking Earth (Hurst, 1997), and Indigenous Religions (Continuum, 2000)