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Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness

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Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness—that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, escapes interpretive techniques. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research alongside Pacific Islander and neo-phenomenological conceptual frameworks, Music Worlding distinguishes between meaning(s) and meaningfulness in Palauan music-making. These are not binary phenomena, but deeply intertwined. However, unlike meaning, meaningfulness to a significant extent suspends language and is thus often prematurely considered ineffable. The book proposes a broader understanding of how the performing arts give rise to a sense of meaningfulness whose felt-bodily affectivity is pivotal to music-making and lived realities. Music Worlding thus seeks to draw the reader closer to the holistic complexity of music-making both in Palau and more generally.

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780 ABE m

Publisher

: ., 2022

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789048550517

Classification

780

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Performing Arts
Social Science / Ethnic Studies
Music / Ethnomusicology

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Statement of Responsibility

Birgit Abels

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umi

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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/4fb0e520-add1-478d-99c5-33a9286be884

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