Sense and Sadness
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-063526-8 (ISBN)
Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception. It is also a musical story of survival through difficulty and pain. Focusing on chant at St George's Syrian Orthodox Church of Aleppo, author Tala Jarjour puts forward the concept of the emotional economy of aesthetics, which enables a new understanding of modal musicality in general and of Syriac musicality in particular. Jarjour combines insights from musicology and ethnomusicology, sound and religious studies, anthropology, history, East Christian and Middle Eastern studies, and the study of emotion, to seamlessly weave together multiple strands of a narrative which then becomes the very story it tells. Drawing on imagination and metaphor, she brings to the fore overlapping, at times contradictory, modes of sense and sense making. At once intimate and analytical, this ethnographic text entwines academic thinking with its subject(s) and subjectivities, portraying events, writing, people, and music as they unfold together through ritual commemorations and a devastating, ongoing war.
Tala Jarjour's academic work focuses on music and religion, especially in contexts related to the Middle East. She wrote her PhD as a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and is currently Visiting Fellow at Yale University.
Preface
Telling history in motion
Dismantled machinery
Illusive empowerment
Part One
Modes of Thinking
Chapter I
Emotion and the Aesthetic
[Snapshot]
Emotion and the Economy of Aesthetics
The emotional economy of aesthetics
A living music
Central marginality
Music complexity
Mode as metaphor
Understanding through imagination
A dynamic outlook on method
[Snapshot]
A scholarship of emotion
Discursive subjectivities
Scholar(ship) and subject(s)
Situationality as liminality
Aestheticizing the emotional
Chapter II
Edessan Christians in Hayy al-Suryan
Unique sounds, against historic odds
Syriac liturgy and theology
Modern Christianity with ancient roots
Begging pardon: Shubqono
Forty times "Forty Bows"
Early asceticism for modern worshippers
Body, voice, and gendered spaces
Part Two
Modes of Knowledge
Chapter III
Eight Old Syriac Modes
Definitions and tools
Conventional European tools
Local tools
Music book and ontological value
Written Sources
"The Ethicon" and "The Pearls"
Suryani musicology
"Tableau sans ombres"
Re-shifting focus
Chapter IV
Chant As Local Knowledge
Contested modality
A monastic perspective
Music knowledge and Hayy al-Suryan
Transcription
Theoretical issues
Local challenges
Handwriting tradition
Knowledge, modality, and influences
Part Three
Modes of Value
Chapter V
Suryaniness
Ethnic spirituality
Place/space and Urfa/Edessa
Language
Sound originality
Sacred texts
Sacred melodies
Chapter VI
Performing Value
The Washing of the Feet
Building up sadness
Chapter VII
Authority
Performing authority
[Snapshot] Value, one morning, and a camera
Voicing authority
Performative complexity
Part Four
Modalities of Song and Emotion
Chapter VIII
Hasho
Huzn as religious aesthetic
Hasho, a Syriac term
Canonic sadness
Aestheticized emotionality
By the cross
Hasho, the mode
Epilogue
Non-Conclusions
Glossary
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 19 photographs, 4 musical examples |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 231 x 155 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-063526-6 / 0190635266 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-063526-8 / 9780190635268 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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