2012-13 Pomona College Catalog

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MUS 076 PO - Performing the Sacred: Toward a Theology of Sound

CrsNo MUS 076 PO

When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.

Instructor(s): K. Hagedorn

This course explores how musical sound and other related performative phenomena are perceived and employed across a variety of religious practices—as sonic representations of the divine, as mystical evocations and as facilitators for ecstatic experience.