Sound, Music, Affect features brand new essays that bring together the burgeoning
developments in sound studies and affect studies. The first section sets out key …

This article discusses the role of biographical memory in three contemporary ritual-musical
appropriations of the psalms in Dutch and Flemish contexts. We observe that, in …

Sound and music play a vital role in many religious and spiritual practices around the world.
However, they have not been studied considerably in the field of religion or in related …

Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by
leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious …

While Bulgarians have purportedly been mumming since ancient times, the last 20 years
have seen an increase of interest and participation in these multi-purpose rituals. The …

Music, as the form of art whose name derives from ancient myths, is often thought of as pure
symbolic expression and associated with transcendence. Music is also a universal …

He decides, as he has done many times before, to listen to Nina Simone's recording of 'My
Sweet Lord'from 1971. He chooses, on this occasion, the MP3 file stored on his smartphone …

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) was one of the most distinctive and influential composers of
the twentieth century. His works exhibit not only his technical innovations and control of his …

In this dissertation, I follow the trajectories of several contiguous, heterodox Muslim groups
in the city of Toronto, and unravel the ways in which they use sound and listening to at once …

In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Western sacred music is
increasingly becoming popular outside the boundaries of Christianity, with which this …