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About this book
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music's meaningfulness – that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, escapes interpretive techniques. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research alongside Pacific Islander and neo-phenomenological conceptual frameworks, Music Worlding in Palau distinguishes between meaning(s) and meaningfulness in Palauan music-making. These are not binary phenomena, but deeply intertwined. However, unlike meaning(s), meaningfulness to a significant extent suspends language and is thus often prematurely considered ineffable. The book proposes a broader understanding of how the performing arts give rise to a sense of meaningfulness whose felt-bodily affectivity is pivotal to music-making and lived realities. Music Worlding in Palau thus seeks to draw the reader closer to the holistic complexity of music-making both in Palau and more generally.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publications
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps, Illustrations, Sound Examples and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Music Worlding in Palau: An Introduction
- 1 Latmikaik’s Children and Their Music
- 2 Vaguely Specific: Resonant Historicity with Chesóls
- 3 Listening with the Dancing Body: Ruk and Movement’s Incipiency
- 4 “Rak, Where Is He Now?” Presence | Present
- 5 Resonance: Co-Becoming with Sound
- 6 Of Magic and Meaningfulness: Chelitákl Rechuódel and the Felt- bodily Dimensions of Spiritual Practice
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index