Notes on commodification and mediaization of religious music

Arc of this course:

(1) "Traditional" topics: holistic world-view. Concepts of "music" and "religion" are often not emic.

• Recitation of sacred texts
• Chanting devotions
• Production of emotion (trance)
• Relation between religious and aesthetic expressions
• Relation between religious music and cosmology
• Religious discourse about music

(2) Differentiation of systems: art, religion, law, science, etc. within discourse and practice (emic difference)

- In particular: Music system differentiated from religious system

- Differentiation: Corresponds to complex industrial society, monetary economy, division of labor

Topics include:

• Religion in the music system (e.g. Christian rock, jazz in concert, in media)
• Music in the religious system (e.g. Christian rock, jazz - in church)
• General impact of religion on music system
• General impact of music on religious sytem
• Media (technology), commodification (globalization)

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