Music & ritual
Subtitle: bridging material & living cultures
By: Raquel Jimenez, Rupert Till and Mark Howell, eds
Contributors: ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology
Series: Publications of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology -- v. 1; Publications of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology -- v. 1.
Publisher: Ekho
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783944415109; 9783944415116
Subjects: Music archaeology; Congresses; Ritual; Ethnomusicology
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Series / Arnd Adje Both; title: Preface and Acknowledgments / Maria Antonia Virgily Blanquet, Juan Peruarena Arregui, Raqu,el Jiménez Pasalodos; title: Introduction to the volume ; Ritual music and archaology: problems and perspectives / Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos, Rupert Till, Mark Howell; title: The round-bodied lute (Ruan) and the ideal of the 'cultivated gentleman' in fourth- to eighth-century Chinese funerary arts : a preliminary study / Ingrid Furniss; title: Divinized instruments and divine communication in Mesopotamia / John C. Franklin; title: Sounds for gods, sounds for humans : triton shell horns in Phoenician and Punic contexts from the Western Mediterranean / Antonio M. Sáez Romero, José M. Gutiérrex López; title: Music and death : razors, stelae and divinities in the Punic Mediterranean / Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Mireia López-Bertran; title: Paestum : ritual music in honour of the dead / Daniela Castaldo; title: The archaeoacoustics of a sixth-century Christian structure : San Vitale, Ravenna / David J. Knight; title: Acoustics, architecture, and instruments in ancient Chavin de Huántar, Perú : an integrative, anthropological approach to archaeoacoustics and music archaeology / Miriam A. Kolar; title: The flight of the sorcerors : sounds, power and hallucinogens in Wari expansions strategies during the Middle Horizon, Peru (ca. AD 500-900) / Mónica Gudemos; title: Membrane drums as cosmic symbols and shamanic portals in the shell art of Spiro, a Mississippian mound site in Oklahoma / James A. Rees, Jr.; title: Ethnoarchaeomusicology: social reproduction, music (sound production) and ideology in the rituals of Alutiiq and Yup'ik societies / Jesús Salius Gumà; title: Sound and ritual in Levantine art : a preliminary study / Margarita Dìaz-Andreu, Carols García Benito; title: Vaccean rattles : toys or magic protectors? / Carlos Sanz Mínguez, Fernando Romero Carnicero, Roberto De Pablo Martínez, Cristina Górriz Gañán; title: The ritual significance of the Scandinavian Bronze Age Lurs : an examination based on ethnographic analogies / Gjermund Kolltveit; title: A shaman drum hammer from the medieval city of Turku, Finland / Riitta Rainio; title: Representations of dance on late-medieval Bosnian gravestones / Zdravko Blažeković; title: Ritual and symbolic aspects of the midwinter horn in the Netherlands / Annemies Tamboer; title: The return of ritual : sacred popular music cultures and cults / Rupert Till.