Sonic Liturgy - Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Guy L. Beck is the author of Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound and editor of Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions. A U.S. Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow, Beck has spent more than six years in India studying Hinduism and music, and he has written extensively on the role of sound and music in Indian traditions. Beck teaches religion and music at Tulane University and the University of New Orleans. Klappentext A groundbreaking study into the parallel developments of worship and musical performance in Hindu culture Zusammenfassung This builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the discussion of sound into the realm of Hindu ritual and musical traditions of worship.

Product details

• Authors: Guy L Beck, Guy L. Beck
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9781611170375
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-037-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Comparative Religio; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Hinduismus