Myth, Mimesis And Magic in the Music of the T'boli, Philippines

Myth, Mimesis And Magic in the Music of the T'boli, Philippines

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Myth, Mimesis And Magic in the Music of the T'boli, Philippines

Myth, Mimesis And Magic in the Music of the T'boli, Philippines

Written by Manolete Mora
4.85 89,206 ratings
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Why is musical mimesis so much a part of the cultural world of indigenous Filipinos? What does it tell us about their musical sensibilities and their social world? 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 that 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 is 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 folklore and cross-cultural aesthetics.

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Publisher Ateneo de Manila University Press
Published May 1, 2006
ISBN 2591844
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Manolete Mora finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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