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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Extravagance of Music
  name:
    name part: Brown, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Hopps, Gavin.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXV, 325 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, The Extravagance of Music sets out a more expansive and optimistic vision, which suggests that there is an 'excess' or 'extravagance' in both music and the divine that can open up revelatory and transformative possibilities. In Part I, David Brown argues that even in the absence of words, classical instrumental music can disclose something of the divine nature that allows us to speak of an experience analogous to contemplative prayer. In Part II, Gavin Hopps contends that, far from being a wasteland of mind-closing triviality, popular music frequently aspires to elicit the imaginative engagement of the listener and is capable of evoking intimations of transcendence. Filled with fresh and accessible discussions of diverse examples and forms of music, this ground-breaking book affirms the disclosive and affective capacities of music, and shows how it can help to awaken, vivify, and sustain a sense of the divine in everyday life.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: an art open to the divine -- 2. A generous excess -- 3. Types of extravagance -- 4. Discovering god in music's excess -- 5. Cultured despisers -- 6. Spilt religion -- 7. Conclusion.
  note: by David Brown, Gavin Hopps.
  subject:
    topic: Religion-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Music-Philosophy and aesthetics
  subject:
    topic: Music
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Music
  subject:
    topic: Music
  classification: BL51
  classification: 210
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319918181
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91818-1
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    record creation date: 180713
    record change date: 20191027081331.0
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