Experiencing Music – Restoring the Spiritual: Music as Well-being

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This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not religious, and spiritual and religious, looking in particular at the place of faith narratives in various spiritualities. These strands are linked with the domains of the musicking experience: Materials, Expression, Construction and Values. The book sets out a model of the spiritual experience as a negotiated relationship between the musicker and the music. It looks in detail at various models of musicking drawn from music therapy, ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural studies. It examines the relationship between Christianity and music as well as examining some practical projects showing the effect of various Value systems in musicking, particularly in intercultural dialogue. It finally proposes an ecclesiology of musical events that includes both orate and literate traditions and so is supportive of inclusive community. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Figures Introduction Prelude: And Still I Wander … through Greek Mythology and the Idea of the Soul Chapter One: The Development of Religionless Spirituality Chapter Two: The Cult of Creativity Chapter Three: The Development of a Phenomenography of the Musical Experience Interlude One: A Place of Transformation: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Chapter Four: The Environment Chapter Five: Music and Expression Chapter Six: Musical Construction Chapter Seven: Values in Musicking Interlude Two: Music and Christian Theology Chapter Eight: Crossing a Threshold: Encountering the Spiritual Chapter Nine: The Extrapersonal Dimension: The Use of the Musical Liminality as a Space for Peace and Justice Making Chapter Ten: Radical Musical Inclusion: An Ecclesiology of Music Postlude: Orpheus Rediscovered: The Way Forward Bibliography Index