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Myth, mimesis and magic in the music of the T'boli, Philippines / Manolette Mora.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Quezon City : Ateneo De Manila University Press, c2005.Description: viii, 232 p. : ill. 23 cmISBN:
  • 971-550-493-0
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F ML 354 .M79 2005
Summary: This book addresses these issues through a study of the relations between musical poetics, myth, and magic in the musical and spiritual lives of T'boli men and women from the highlands of southwestern Mindanao. Manolete Mora's study shows that musical mimesis is an intrinsic part of the cultural process of interpreting, articulating, making, and remaking the world. More significantly, it suggests tha musical mimesis is intimately linked to a moral universe that is grounded in reciprocity. Musical mimesis is a way of establishing contact, fusion and identity with the "other," and this possible because of the existence of concepts of knowledge and being that are fundamentally different from our own. This book embraces wide-ranging ethnographic materials and issues that will be of interest to the musicologist, anthropologist, and student of Southeast Asian folflore and cross-cultural aesthetics.
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Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana ML 354 .M79 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000295664
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana ML 354 .M79 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000293543

This book addresses these issues through a study of the relations between musical poetics, myth, and magic in the musical and spiritual lives of T'boli men and women from the highlands of southwestern Mindanao. Manolete Mora's study shows that musical mimesis is an intrinsic part of the cultural process of interpreting, articulating, making, and remaking the world. More significantly, it suggests tha musical mimesis is intimately linked to a moral universe that is grounded in reciprocity. Musical mimesis is a way of establishing contact, fusion and identity with the "other," and this possible because of the existence of concepts of knowledge and being that are fundamentally different from our own. This book embraces wide-ranging ethnographic materials and issues that will be of interest to the musicologist, anthropologist, and student of Southeast Asian folflore and cross-cultural aesthetics.

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