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The Extravagance of Music

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Extravagance of Music

By David Brown, Gavin Hopps

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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 Par...Show more

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ISBN

9783319918174

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

The Extravagance of Music

Format

Hardcover

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