Indigenous Religious Musics

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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Music Examples -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Te Kaha o te Waiata - The Power of Music: Maori Oral Traditions illustrated by E Tipu e Rea -- 2From Here into Eternity: Power and Transcendence in Australian Aboriginal Music -- 3 Sacred and Profane: Music in Korean Shaman Rituals -- 4 Maasai Musics, Rituals and Identities -- 5 Appeasing the Spirits: Music, Possession, Divination and Healing in Busoga, Eastern Uganda -- 6 Chasing Off God: Spirit Possession in a Sharing Society -- 7 Sounding the Sacred: Music as Sacred Site (the Search for a Universal Sacred Music) -- 8 Emerging Amazonian Peoples: Myth-chants -- 9 Structure into Practice: A Theory of Inuit Music -- 10 The Music of the Mescalero Apache Girls' Puberty Ceremony -- Recordings -- CD Information -- Index