Sound and communication : an aesthetic cultural history of Sanskrit Hinduism /
In Hindu India both orality and sonality have enjoyed great cultural significance since earliest times. They have a distinct influence on how people approach texts. The importance of sound and its perception has led to rites, models of cosmic order, and abstract formulas. Sound serves both to stimul...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter,
[2011]
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Colección: | Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ;
v. 41. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Table of Contents; I. Methodology; 1 Hinduism as a Culture of Sound; II. History; 2 The Veda as a Basic Paradigm for Sacred Language and Sacred Sound; 3 Composition and Decomposition: Analytical Studies and Popularizations of the Veda
- Rationality and Aesthetics of Post-Vedic; 4 Pluralism and the Search for Orientation: De-Sacralization and Re-Sacralization of Language in Poetics, Linguistics, and Meta; 5 Performance and Sensuality: The Sound Universes of Tantra and Devotionalism; 6 Sensory Substance: Näda-Brahman in East and West; 7 Appendix: Music CD
- Accompanying Text.