The Extravagance of Music

• Main Authors: Brown, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hopps, Gavin (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Religion-Philosophy.; Music-Philosophy and aesthetics.; Music.; Philosophy of Religion.; Philosophy of Music.

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...

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.