Hi Tom,
if its helps...but it only in german...I wrote about the topic how the
invisible and flexibel boundaries could be fixed by theory...I used the
system analysis and theory by Luhmann and think I´ve got it...a bit ;-)
follow this link to see:
[http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&vSiteID=1&vSiteName=BookDetail.c
fm&VID=53976&]
All the best,
Thomas
www.thomasfeist.de
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Betreff: Religious/sacred vs. profane/secular - blurring the boundaries
I don't know if this list is still active or not, since there doesn't
seem to have been any activity for a while. But I'll try this query
anyway ...
I have a Ugandan masters student working on how the general popularity
in Uganda of what he calls Ugandan gospel music (which stylistically
sounds more to my ears like central-African rumba-derived dance music
with religious texts, than like African-American gospel) is blurring
the boundary between the "sacred" and the "secular." I.e., musicians
perform the same music both in church and in nightclubs, some
"secular" musicians who are not particularly "religious" in their
public persona never-the-less include some "gospel" songs in their
repertoire, etc.
I'm looking for readings, theoretical and/or empirically oriented,
that explore how musics/performances/discourses about musics/etc. can
blur the boundaries between the ideal types "sacred"/"religious" and
"profane"/"secular," in order to give my student some inspiration
about how to approach his material.
I've got one article by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata on performances of
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan that addresses this issue, and the dissertation
and some articles by Jean Kidula on "religious popular music" in Kenya.
Anybody have any further recommendations?
Regards, Tom
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Tom Solomon
Fřrsteamanuensis / Associate Professor (Ethnomusicology)
Grieg Academy - Institute for Music
University of Bergen
Lars Hilles gt. 3
5015 Bergen, Norway
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