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Music and the Ecstatic Experience


Emotional Cultivation and the Chaotic Emotion: Towards a Theory of Ritual, Musical, and Emotional Parallel Morphology, as Encountered in Andalusian Ritual Practices
This paper is the published version of my multi-media presentation at the "Ritual Dynamics Conference", held in Heidelberg, Germany, 2008. Body, Performance, Agency and Experience (Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual) Hardcover – December 1, 2010 by Angelos Chaniotis (Editor), Silke Leopold (Editor), Hendrik Schulze (Editor) The Chaotic Emotion: Towards a Theory of Ritual, Musical, and Emotional Parallel Morphology, as Encountered in Andalusian Ritual Practices W.
W. Gerard Poole
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