How Long to Read Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music

How Long Does it Take to Read Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 3 minutes to read Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music by Marcel Cobussen

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Description

In Thresholds Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality. The point of departure is the current movement within contemporary classical music known as New Spiritual Music, with as its main representatives Arvo P John Tavener, and Giya Kancheli. In almost all respects, the musical principles of the new spiritual music seem to be diametrically opposed to those of modernism: repetition and rest versus development and progress, tradition and familiarity versus innovation and experiment, communication versus individualism and conceptualism, tonality versus atonality, and so on. As such, this movement is often considered as part of the much larger complex called postmodernism. Joining in with ideas on spirituality as presented by Michel de Certeau and Mark C. Taylor, Cobussen deconstructs the classification of the 'spiritual dimensions' of music as described above. Thresholds presents an idea of spirituality in and through music that counters strategies of exclusion and mastering of alterity and connects it to wandering, erring, and roving. Using the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, Jean-Fran‘s Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and others, and analysing the music of John Coltrane, the mythical Sirens, Arvo P and The Eagles (to mention a few), Cobussen regards spirituality as a (non)concept that escapes categorization, classification, and linguistic descriptions. Spirituality is a-topological, non-discursive and a manifestation of 'otherness'. And it is precisely music (or better: listening to music) that induces these thoughts: by carefully encountering, analysing, and evaluating certain examples from classical, jazz, pop and world music it is possible to detach spirituality from concepts of otherworldliness and transcendentalism. Thresholds opens a space in which spirituality can be connected to music that is not commonly considered in this light, thereby enriching the ways of approaching and discussing music. In orde

How long is Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music?

Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music by Marcel Cobussen is 182 pages long, and a total of 45,864 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 10 minutes to read Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music aloud.

What Reading Level is Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music?

Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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