Feminist Theology of Music
Melting the Venusberg
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826428332
Number of Pages: 300
Width: 15.3 cm
Height: 22.8 cm
Epstein considers the masculinist foundational texts of Western music from Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Augustine, John Chrysostrom, Aquinas, et al. to find them wanting. How? The erotic or even fleshy aspect of music has been suppressed whereas music as an expression of transcendent harmony and restraint has been extolled. This all changed with Hildegard of Bingen, ca. 12 c., a great mystic, herbalist, and all-around genius. This feminist-Christian tradition, with its restoration of what music in a religious setting might be, is traced through figures like Rosetta Tharpe and the writings of Michael Eric Dyson.
"Important not only for the articulation of a feminist theology of music, but also for rendering visible the intense (and intensely bodily) devotion elicited by music itself." Amy Hollywood"