Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 2015
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First English-language ethnomusicological monograph on Estonian music. Previously undocumented perspective on musical and religious life in the post-Soviet world. Breaks new theoretical ground with interdisciplinary work on secularity and the secular.
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- Title
- Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia
- Author
- Jeffers Engelhardt
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, London
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199332134
- ISBN 13
- 9780199332137
- Dimensions
- 235x165
- Seller catalogs
- General Music Books and Ephemera
Approaching Orthodoxy through local understandings of correct practice and correct belief, Engelhardt shows how religious knowledge, national identity, and social transformation illuminate in the work of singing: how to "sing the right way" and thereby realize the fullness of their faith. In some parishes, this meant preserving a local, Protestant-influenced tradition of congregational singing from the 1920s and 30s. In others, it meant adapting Byzantine melodies and vocal styles encountered abroad. In still others, it meant continuing a bilingual, multi-ethnic Estonian-Russian oral tradition despite ecclesiastical and political struggle.
Based on a decade of fieldwork and singing in choirs, Singing the Right Way traces the sounds of Orthodoxy in Estonia through the Russian Empire, interwar national independence, the Soviet-era, and post-Soviet integration into the European Union to describe the dynamics of religion and secularity in singing style and repertoire -- what Engelhardt calls secular enchantment. Ultimately, Singing the Right Way is an innovative model of how the musical poetics of contemporary religious forms are rooted in both sacred tradition and the contingent ways individuals inhabit the secular. This landmark study is sure to be an essential text for scholars studying the ethnomusicology of religion.
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