Melting the Venusberg
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-1648-3 (ISBN)
Her treatment of traditionalist repressive tactics is an insightful subversion of conventional theologies of music, as well as a hilarious expose of male theologians emoting, fatuously and prolixly, over this or that 'divine,' 'sublime', 'celestial' composer - Bach and Mozart being the main victims of these effusions. The second, reconstructive part of Melting the Venusberg draws on ignored sources and lost tropes from the Christian tradition as well as on insights from the music and thought of historical and contemporary woman composers and performers, from Hildegard of Bingen and Lucrezia Vizzana, to Rosetta Tharpe and Diamanda Galas. Through this recuperative synthesis, music's theological significance changes keys, as it moves beyond its symbolic function as divinely ordained, harmonious microcosm into more dissonant metaphorical registers. Those who have ears to hear will be delighted.
A native of Newfoundland, Heidi Epstein has graduate degrees in music history and religious studies from McGill University, where she was also a church organist and choir director. She is currently on the faculty of religious studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan.
Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Musing the Obscure': The Problem of Music and; Meaning...; Part One: Critique of Masculinist Theologies of Music; Chapter One: Phallic Rage for Order: Traditional Theologies of Music; Chapter Two: Sexing the Semitone: Music's Historical Engendering; Chapter Three: 'Inebriate Bewitchment': Harmony's Eternal Return; Part Two: Feminist Reconstruction; Chapter Four: Critical Counterpoint: Arpeggiating a Feminist; Theology of Music. Chapter Five: Twisted Sisters' Theological Grist: Music as; Redemptive Transgression; Chapter Six: 'Foul Ooze': New Icons of Abjection; Da Capo: 'Sing for our Time too': Future Theologies of; Attunement; Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort | London |
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Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 300 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8264-1648-9 / 0826416489 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8264-1648-3 / 9780826416483 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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