The Untidy Playground: An Irish Congolese Case Study in Sonic Encounters with the Sacred Stranger

This paper explores the proposal that music, and particularly singing, has unique properties that render it amenable to encounters with “the other” or the sacred stranger. Drawing on the deconstructionist works of Kristeva and Derrida, as well as the postmodern hermeneutics of Kearney and Caputo, it...

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Main Author: Helen Phelan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-11-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/11/249