2023 Meeting in Ottawa

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Oct 11, 2023, 1:05:18 PM10/11/23
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Hello, members of the Religion, Music, and Sound Section!

I’m writing to let you know that you are all invited to our Section meeting at the 2023 SEM meeting in Ottawa, and give you a bit of information about it.  

We will have our regular meeting on Thursday, October 19, from 8:00 - 10:00 PM in the Maple Room.  You will find the agenda and last year’s minutes attached to this email.  Our Secretary/Chair-Elect, Anya Ezhevskaya, will need to join our meeting by Zoom this year.  If there is a member who has access to a paid Zoom account and can help get Anya hooked up, please let me know.

I would like to draw your attention to the following panels that might be of interest:

Thursday, October 19
8:00 - 10:00 AM, Maple Room, a panel entitled “Sacred and Devotional Practices.”
10:45AM - 12:15 PM, Oak Room, a panel entitled “Convergences of Sacred and Secular.”

Friday, October 20
4:00 - 5:30 PM, Ontario Room, a panel entitled “Guided by Spirits:  Spiritualism, Sound, and Gender.”
4:00 - 5:30 PM, Maple Room, a panel entitled “Orchestrating Sound, Affect, and Power in Rituals.”

Saturday, October 21
8:30 - 10:30 AM, British Columbia Room, a panel entitled “Music and Christianity.”


Also, we have a special event planned!  Please join us on Saturday, October 21, at 8:00 PM in the Saskatchewan room for our joint keynote address with the Society for Arab Music Research!  Our speaker will be Richard Jankowsky of Tufts University, giving a talk entitled “Soundworlds of the Saints: Ritual Journeys and Musical Authority in North African Islam.”  We are looking forward to hearing about this!

And I am looking forward to seeing all of your lovely faces in Ottawa!

Till then, all best,

Dr. Rachel Adelstein
Ritual Coordinator, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel
Managing Editor, Musica Judaica Online Reviews
Chair, SEM Religion, Music, and Sound Section
New Haven, CT
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carola erika lorea

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Oct 23, 2024, 3:58:32 PM10/23/24
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Dear Colleagues in the Religion, Music and Sounds Section,

The book Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power (ed. by Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett, Amsterdam University Press) is finally out and Open Access! Please help me to circulate the good news and enjoy the free e-book online, at https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.20093336

What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, with a focus on Asia. It implements a “sonic turn” in the study of religion by engaging with a diversity of auditory, musical, and embodied practices. 
Dislodging the Global North as the main point of reference for studies on religious sound, we propose an acoustemology of the post-secular. 
We present religious sounds as co-creating subjectivities and collectivities that coalesce around audible aesthetic formations, demonstrating that religious sounds are not only produced by certain religious traditions but also produce communities, shaping the self and sensitivity of those who participate. Do to so, we have brought together contributors from top scholars of religion, society, music, and the senses.
🎧🎤🎼🎹The book is enriched by numerous sound samples and audiovisual files accessible via QR codes within each chapter. Please enjoy and share widely!


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