Topics

Note: I am permuting (slightly) the topic sequence presented in the course outline; please follow the topic list as presented below.

• 1. Resounding ritual

• 2. Reciting the sacred

• 3. Chanting devotions

• 4. Affect, trance, healing, and the self

• 5. The aesthetic and the sacred

• 6. Myth, cosmology, and sacred power

• 7. Religion in the music system

• Dr. Kiri Miller's presentation on Tuesday, March 14th

• 8. Music in religious discourse (for Thursday, March 16th)

• 9. The impact of religion on the music system (for Tuesday, March 21st)

• Dr. Joshua Tucker's presentation on Thursday, March 23rd

• 10. Commodification and mediaization of religious music (for Tuesday, March 28th)

• Fieldwork oral reports, March 30th

• Dr. Federico Spinetti's presentation on Tuesday, April 4th

• Fieldwork oral reports, April 6th