The Music and Dance of the World's Religions

E. GARDNER RUST is Professor of Music at Sonoma State University, California, where he has taught courses in world music for over 25 years. For the last decade, he has been developing a course on the music and dance of the world's religions. This book is an outgrowth of his interest in the subject.

Preface
Abbreviations
General References and Studies
Asia: General References
North Asia and Lapland: Shamanism
China/Taiwan
Tibet
Korea
Japan
Mongolia
Central Asia
Southeast Asia
South Asia: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan
Zoroastrianism and the Parsis of India
The Ancient Near East
Music and Dance in the Bible
Judaism
European Christianity: General References, Histories, Surveys, and Liturgy
The Church of Rome
Western European Plainchant
Western European Polyphony
Liturgical Reforms of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Vatican II (1962-1965)
Orthodox and Other Non-Latin Christian Rites: Liturgy and Music
Religious Music in Great Britain
Protestant Music on the European Continent
Liturgical Dance and Drama
Islam
Music, Mathematics, and Mysticism
Sub-Saharan Africa
North America: Euro-American and Afro-American Religious Music: General References
North America: Religious Music of Euro-American Origin
North America: Afro-American Religious Music
Spirituals and Gospels
Contemporary Christian Music
Jewish and Asian-American Religious Music
Latin American and Afro-American Religious Music of Central and South America and the West Indies
North American Indians: General References
North American Indians: Music and Dance by Region
Central and South American Indians
Eskimo and Inuit Religious Music
Oceania
Addendum
Author Index
Subject Index