Marcel Cobussen

Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Thresholds, Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality. The book presents an idea of spirituality in and through music that counters strategies of exclusion and mastering of alterity and connects it to wandering, erring, and roving. Cobussen regards spirituality as a (non)concept that escapes categorization, classification, and linguistic descriptions. Spirituality is a-topological, non-discursive and a manifestation of 'otherness'. And it is precisely music (or better: listening to music) that induces these thoughts. By carefully encountering, analysing, and evaluating certain examples from classical, jazz, pop and world music it is possible to detach spirituality from concepts of otherworldliness and transcendentalism.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780754664796
• ISBN-10: 0754664791
• Artikelnr.: 44973920

Autorenporträt

Dr Marcel Cobussen, Assistant Professor of Music Philosophy and Cultural Theory, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The desert in the desert
A short prelude to music and spirituality
Stories
New spiritual music
Between heaven and earth
Sirens
Language, spirituality, music
Wanderings
The abyss
Silence
Listening to music
Para-spirituality
The bridge and the laugh
Bibliography
Index.