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The Extravagance of Music


The Extravagance of Music



von: David Brown, Gavin Hopps

96,29 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 13.07.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319918181
Sprache: englisch

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<div><p></p><p>This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, <i>The Extravagance of Music</i> sets out a more expansive and optimistic vision, which suggests that there is an ‘excess’ or ‘extravagance’ in both music and the divine that can open up revelatory and transformative possibilities. In Part I, David Brown argues that even in the absence of words, classical instrumental music can disclose something of the divine nature that allows us to speak of an experience analogous to contemplative prayer. In Part II, Gavin Hopps contends that, far from being a wasteland of mind-closing triviality, popular music frequently aspires to elicit the imaginative engagement of the listener and is capable of evoking intimations of transcendence. Filled with fresh and accessible discussions of diverse examples and forms of music, this ground-breaking book affirms the disclosive and affective capacities of music, and shows how it can help to awaken, vivify, and sustain a sense of the divine in everyday life.</p><br><p></p></div>
<div><div><p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; INTRODUCTION: AN ART OPEN TO THE DIVINE </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Extravagance of Music</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ancestral Conceptions of Music</p>

<p>The Pythagorean Tradition</p>

<p>The Orphic Tradition</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Extravagance of the Divine</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prospectus</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Part One: God and Classical Sounds</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A GENEROUS EXCESS </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Divine at Work beyond Scripture</p>

<p>The Possibility of Music as Encounter</p>

<p>Types of Aesthetic Experience and Their Relation to Religion</p>

<p>Competing Types of Aesthetic Evaluation and Experience </p>

<p>Religious Perspectives Interacting with Aesthetic Criteria</p>

<p>Music in the Context of Words: Setting Divine Encounters to Music</p>

<p>Interim Conclusion</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TYPES OF EXTRAVAGANCE </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Order and the Music of the Spheres: Haydn, Mozart, and Bach</p>

<p>A Sense of Transcendence: Beethoven and Led Zeppelin</p>

<p>Divine Immanence: Beethoven, Sibelius and Debussy, and the Creed’s Incarnatus</p>

<p>Divine Immanence in Nature</p>

<p>Immanence and the Incarnatus est of the Creed</p>

<p>The Mystery of the Divine Life: Minimalism, Bruckner, Liszt and Franck</p>

<p>Transcending Time</p>

<p>Serenity, Majesty, Ecstatic Joy</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Specifics: Coltrane on Generosity, Schubert on Suffering, Massenet on Suicide</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DISCOVERING GOD IN MUSIC’S EXCESS </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Giving Sense to the Encounter</p>

<p>From the Human Side: Knowledge and Emotion</p>

<p>From the Divine Side: Developing a Philosophy of Presence</p>

<p>Restraints on Such Experience </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Part Two: Popular Music and the Opening up of Religious Experience</p><p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CULTURED DESPISERS</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Cloistral Refuge of Music </p>

<p>Pop Pollution</p>

<p>God’s Love of Adverbs</p>

<p>The Wonder of Minor Experiences</p>

<p>Dancing ‘with’ and Dancing ‘at’</p>

<p>What Has Graceland to Do with Jerusalem? </p>

<p>Theological Imperialism</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aesthetic Hospitality</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Wandering of the Semantic</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One Size Fits All</p>

<p>Too Much Heaven?</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rehabilitating Lightness</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The World ‘in front of’ the Text</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Spiritual Assets of Tackiness</p>

<p>Cultural Pessimism&nbsp; </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SPILT RELIGION</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Listener’s Share</p>

<p>Unheard Melodies</p>

<p>Only Connect</p>

<p>Jordan: The Comeback</p>

<p>The Word in the Desert </p>

<p>Post-Secular Popular Music</p>

<p>The In-Between</p>

<p>The Impure Sacred</p>

<p>Oxymoronic Postures</p>

<p>Metaphysical Shuddering</p>

<p>Ontological Exuberance</p>

<p>Ludic Avowal</p>

<p>Subjunctive Explorations</p>

<p>Being in Darkness</p>

<p>The Interlocuted Listener</p>

<p>Secular Forms and Sacred Effects</p>

<p>Musical Hyperbole</p>

<p>The Moment out of Time</p>

<p>The Swarming Forms of the Banal</p>

<p>Homeward Bound</p>

<p>Coda: Being Opened </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CONCLUSION</p><br></div></div>
<p></p><p><b>David Brown</b> is&nbsp;Emeritus Professor of Theology,&nbsp;Aesthetics and Culture, and Wardlaw&nbsp;Professor&nbsp;at the University of St Andrews, UK.</p>

<p><b>Gavin Hopps</b> is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA), UK.</p><br><br><p></p>
<p></p><p>This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, <i>The Extravagance of Music</i> sets out a more expansive and optimistic vision, which suggests that there is an ‘excess’ or ‘extravagance’ in both music and the divine that can open up revelatory and transformative possibilities. In Part I, David Brown argues that even in the absence of words, classical instrumental music can disclose something of the divine nature that allows us to speak of an experience analogous to contemplative prayer. In Part II, Gavin Hopps contends that, far from being a wasteland of mind-closing triviality, popular music frequently aspires to elicit the imaginative engagement of the listener and is capable of evoking intimations of transcendence. Filled with fresh and accessible discussions of diverse examples and forms of music, this ground-breaking book affirms the disclosive and affective capacities of music, and shows how it can help to awaken, vivify, and sustain a sense of the divine in everyday life.</p><br><p></p>
<p>Discusses the power of music, and its ability to convey suggestions of the divine</p><p>Challenges the dominant approach to music</p><p>Offers a new methodological paradigm for thinking about the religious significance of music</p>
“This extraordinarily wide-ranging book is like its subject: an excess of riches and a wander on the wild side. Theological reflection on music will never be the same again.” (Carol Harrison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford University, UK)<p>“Brown and Hopps create a truly unique investigation into the power of creativity in music from a theological perspective that is both original and compelling. I have no doubt that this is one of the most serious texts, by experts in both theology and music, that attempts to unravel the deep secrets of a theological understanding of musical creation. It has forced me to constantly rethink my own journey as a composer.” (Paul Mealor, OStJ, Composer and Professor of Composition, University of Aberdeen, UK)</p>

<p>“In this timely and fascinating book, Brown and Hopps argue persuasively that music—both in its form and in the event of listening, in wordless and ‘secular’ works as well as those with deliberate religious associations, and through popular genres just as much as high art—can ‘lead us to the edge of the infinite,’ providing a place not only of religious encounter but also divine revelation. Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between theology and the meaning-making possibilities of music.” (Maggi Dawn, Associate Professor of Theology and Literature, Yale Divinity School, USA)</p>

<p>“When I read this book, I was reminded of Faber’s fine hymn ‘There’s wideness in God’s mercy.’ In the face of literature that would limit the revelation of the Divine in music to a few musical works of a particular style with an approved theology, it widens the scope of the spiritual in music to include the musicker as well as the sound of the music itself. It opens up the possibility that a variety of musics can generate a transcendent experience, depending on the musical experience and preferences of the musicker. In this book God is seen as extravagantly generous with grace which cannot be limited in its scope. I recommend it heartily for anyone interested in music and the spiritual; it will challenge and intrigue them.” (June Boyce-Tillman, MBE, Professor of Applied Music, University of Winchester, UK)</p>

<p>“David Brown and Gavin Hopps have given us a wise and wide-ranging treatment of the possibilities of music as a mediator of the divine. Opposing the reductionism of both ‘catechetical’ religious approaches and secularist exclusions of the sacred, they provide cogent arguments for the positive significance of music for awareness of God. The authors place their topics within the large context of theological and especially musical aesthetics, but they are not content with the general observations that frequently characterize theological treatments of music. They invite us to recognize the possibility of musical experiences of different kinds and levels of depth that can reveal varied but complementary aspects of divine encounter. Avoiding simplistic positions, the authors explicitly take into account the inevitable social and individual contexts that condition all experiences. But they argue effectively that within such contexts, for those disposed, truly revelatory moments through music are possible and real.” (Richard Viladesau, Professor Emeritus, Fordham University, New York, USA)</p>

<p>“As a music therapist one of the most common things people say to me is ‘music takes me somewhere else’ or ‘music is spiritual for me.’ Such music may be Bach, The Grateful Dead, or a spontaneous improvisation. The relationship between music and spirituality is a very contemporary concern, and this timely and important book addresses a key imbalance in the growing interdisciplinary literature. To date studies of the relationship between spirituality and music have tended to focus exclusively on high art music as the paradigm case of music as a transcendent experience. Brown and Hopps re-balance this outdated picture with a more ‘horizontal’ and hospitable perspective—thinking across the classical and popular traditions, and presenting a view of how music conceived within everyday experience and action can better help us explore the links between immanence and transcendence. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in these key contemporary concerns.” (Gary Ansdell, Research Associate, Nordoff Robbins, UK)</p>

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