Music at the threshold from the sacred to the dangerous / Sean Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Sean, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology.

ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"This book explores the connection of liminality to musical culture by focusing on how performance practices tend to occur at liminal places and times, and often by potentially marginalized people who are, in fact, central to the expression of cultural identity. The book highlights issues of access and interdisciplinarity and shows how people use music to facilitate transformation in culturally bound ways. Featuring themes of access to the unknown, dual faith, erotic power, longing for home, transgression, and resistance, each chapter draws from an array of musical settings and cultural traditions that—considered on their own—might not be as remarkable without seeing the greater picture. Rather than focus on a single genre in a single place, this meta-ethnography casts a wide thematic net across genres, regions, and people"-- Oxford Academic.

Contents:

Poised at the edge

Intermediaries and shapeshifters

Liminalities of faith

Erotic currency

The presence of absence

Sounds like transgression

Shifting sands of power, identity, and resistance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed May 5, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Williams, Sean, 1959- Music at the threshold from the sacred to the dangerous

ISBN:

9780197761762

0197761763

OCLC:

1574527122

Publisher Number:

CIPO000359179

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license