Author: University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology
Publisher: Quezon City : Center for Ethnomusicology, University of the Philippines, 2011
Format: Periodical
Price: PhP 300.00 (On Sale PhP 250.00 or USD 10.00)

Music and ritual are close conceptual cousins. Both draw a recourse to formal, highly patterned, repetitive symbolic languages. The five articles in this volume illustrate this basic proposition on the use and meaning of music in ritual, particularly the multisensorial ones that engage participants' bodies in events that involve intense degrees of complexity and heightened aesthetics.

Contents:Oguaa Fetu Afahye : a Music and Ritual of the People of Cape Coast in Ghana / Martin Q. Amlor
The Invencion of Calabanga, Camarines Sur : Dynamics of Family, Land, and Power / Juliet R. Bien
The Philippine Pasyon : a Transforming and Transformative / M. Arlene Chongson
An Understanding of Communities of Singers in the Context of a Funeral Ceremony in Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines / Christine May de Vera
Music in the Monogit Rituals of the Kadazan of Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia / Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, Hanafi Hussin and Judeth John Baptist
The Life & Works of Marcelo Adonay, vol. 1 (Book Review)
A Review of a Video-Film on a Festival : a Ritua; of Recuperation (Film Review)