Ancestral North Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music

This book explores the world of Nordic ritual folk music, including Viking reenactments, neopagan spiritualities, and creative musical anachronisms.

About the author

Ross Hagen is associate professor of music studies in the Department of Music at Utah Valley University. Mathias Nordvig is visiting assistant professor of Nordic and Arctic studies at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado.

Summary

This book explores the world of Nordic ritual folk music, including Viking reenactments, neopagan spiritualities, and creative musical anachronisms.

Product details

• Authors: Ross Nordvig Hagen, Ross Hagen, Mathias Nordvig
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.05.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781666917567
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-756-7
• Pages: 252
• Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
• Subjects: Music, History: specific events & topics, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Vikings, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, History of Music, Folk Music, Viking Metal, Folk & traditional music, New Religious Movements, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music, medievalism, Neopaganism, Scandinavian music, Neofolk Music, Nordic music