Reconciliation Made Sound: Madjitil Moorna’s Experience of Harmony and Healing
Author(s):
Julie Rickwood
Publication Year:
2012
Type:
journal article
Journal/Book Title
Context: Journal of Music Research
Publisher
Editor(s):
Pages:
93-106
Volume:
Issue:
37
Abstract:
Music both articulates and offers the immediate experience of collective identity … In responding to a song, to a sound, we are drawn into affective and emotional alliances … Music is especially important for our sense of ourselves because of its unique emotional intensity—we absorb songs into our own lives and rhythm into our own bodies … Identity is always an ideal, what we would like to be, not what we are … What makes music special is that musical identity is both fantastic—idealizing not just oneself but also the social world one inhabits—and real: it is enacted in activity.
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https://bpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.unimelb.edu.au/dist/6/184/files/2016/08/37_Rickwood-rctqcp.pdfCitation (Chicago Author-Date):
Rickwood, Julie. 2012. “Reconciliation Made Sound: Madjitil Moorna’s Experience of Harmony and Healing.” Context: Journal of Music Research, no. 37: 93–106. https://bpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.unimelb.edu.au/dist/6/184/files/2016/08/37_Rickwood-rctqcp.pdf.