Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred by Bouteneff, Peter C.

Arvo P舐t: Sounding the Sacred (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823289752)

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Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred by Bouteneff, Peter C.

Arvo P舐t: Sounding the Sacred

$138.00
Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred by Bouteneff, Peter C.

Arvo P舐t: Sounding the Sacred

$138.00
Format: Hardcover
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Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo P舐t is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo P舐t: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representational dimensions of P舐t's music (including the trope of silence), writing and listening past the fact that its storied effects and affects are carried first and foremost as vibrations through air, impressing themselves on the human body. In response, this ambitiously interdisciplinary volume asks: What of sound and materiality as embodiments of the sacred, as historically specific artifacts, and as elements of creation deeply linked to the human sensorium in P舐t studies? In taking up these questions, the book "de-Platonizes" P舐t studies by demystifying the notion of a single "P舐t sound." It offers innovative, critical analyses of the historical contexts of P舐t's experimentation, medievalism, and diverse creative work; it re-sounds the acoustic, theological, and representational grounds of silence in P舐t's music; it listens with critical openness to the intersections of theology, sacred texts, and spirituality in P舐t's music; and it positions sensing, performing bodies at the center of musical experience. Building on the conventional score-, biography-, and media-based approaches, this volume reframes P舐t studies around the materiality of sound, its sacredness, and its embodied resonances within secular spaces.

Author: Peter C. Bouteneff
ISBN-10: 0823289753
ISBN-13: 9780823289752
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2020
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

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Choice 01/01/2022
By Peter C. Bouteneff
By Peter C. Bouteneff
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Peter C. Bouteneff (Edited By)
Peter C. Bouteneff is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he also directs the Institute of Sacred Arts and the Arvo P舐t Project. He is the author of Arvo P舐t: Out of Silence (SVS Press, 2015).

Jeffers Engelhardt (Edited By)
Jeffers Engelhardt is Associate Professor of Music at Amherst College. His research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. His books include Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia (Oxford, 2015) and the co-edited volume Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual (Oxford, 2016).

Robert Saler (Edited By)
Robert Saler is Research Professor of Religion and Culture and Associate Dean at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Pastoral Excellence. He is the author of Between Magisterium and Marketplace (Fortress, 2014), Theologia Crucis (Cascade, 2016), and All These Things into Position: What Theology Can Learn from Radiohead (Cascade, 2019).

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