Melting the Venusberg / A Feminist Theology of Music - Epstein, Heidi
A Feminist Theology of Music
KORTE INHOUD
This book begins with a pointed critique of the foundations of the understanding of Western music: that music from Pythagoras to the Renaissance has been viewed as the source and model of order in the universe and in society. Unfortunately that order was rigidly hierarchical, so that over the centuries music reinforced established social prejudices, particularly those against women. Nowhere was this more evident than in religious music that was regarded by male ecclesiastics and scholars as the instrument of choice for taming hysterical female eruptions. Through her mordant commentary on a rich selection of texts by major thinkers from two millennia of Christian theology, Heidi Epstein shows in the first part of Melting the Venusberg that music as the erotic embodiment of human engenderment has been ignored or suppressed, while music as the expression of transcendent harmony, order, and restraint has been extolled. The second re-constructive part of Melting the Venusberg draws on ignored sources and lost trop...
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2004, 204pp, paperback, goed exemplaar, naam voorin [Auteur: Epstein, Heidi] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: CONTINUUM] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Melting the Venusberg / A Feminist Theology of Music]
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Paperback, in zeer goede staat; 2004; First edition; A and C Black; 204 pagina's; Titel: Melting the Venusberg - A Feminist Theology of Music; Ref: 231727 / U50PXE3
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