New Issue of Yale Journal for Music & Religion
The Yale Journal of Music & Religion has published a new issue: “Sacred Recitation and Ritual in Digital Worlds” (vol. 9, no. 2), guest-edited by Professor Anne K. Rasmussen (College of William and Mary). The journal is a forum for the study of sacred music in its ritual, artistic, and cultural contexts. Twice yearly, this peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes scholarship on religious music of all traditions across a range of methodologies, situating it within the worlds of beliefs and practices.
Table of Contents
Introduction
- Anne K. Rasmussen: “Sacred Recitation and Ritual in Digital Worlds”
Articles
- James R. W. Crockford: “Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: Meditations of Immediacy in Jazz Ritual and Recitation”
- Polina Dessiatnitchenko: “The Voice of the Azerbaijan: Experiencing Recordings of Hajibaba Huseynov and post-Soviet Muslim Musical Identities”
- David Font-Navarrete: “‘Forget the Rest…’: Notes on Magnetic Tape and Other Antiquated Media as Archives of Afro-Atlantic Liturgy”
- Simone Krüger Bridge: “The Online Cathedral: A Case Study Analysis of Egalitarian Outreach at Liverpool Cathedral for Mental Health and Spiritual Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Pandemic”
- Christiane Strothmann: “Sacred Recitation of the Tibetan Yungdrung Bön Tradition: The Kharnatsang Collection of Skad and the Arrangement of the Three Heart Mantras”
- Jeffrey A. Summit: “Jewish Worship, Music, and Technology during the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Book Reviews
- Sarah Moerman: review of Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods and Directions (Guy L. Beck)
- Laura Stefanescu: review of Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon (John A. Rice)
Call for Submissions
In addition, the YJMR reiterates two ongoing calls. Please send any questions and proposals to editor-in-chief to Jeffers Engelhardt.
- general-issue submissions considered on a rolling basis. Submit an article here.
- English translations of primary sources, scholarship, essays, and commentaries considered on a rolling basis. Submit a translation here.