The Music and Dance of the World's Religions A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Materials in the English Language

Subjects:

• The Arts » Ethnomusicology
• The Arts » Dance
• Religious Studies » Religious Studies (General)

Reviews:

• Rust has compiled a valuable annotated bibliography of almost 3,900 citations to the burgeoning literature on music and dance in a religious context....Readers will find references to both printed materials and oral traditions. An expanded table of contents and author and subject indexes make the volume reader-friendly....Highly recommended for all academic libraries serving students of music or religion.
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  Choice
• As a resource for a narrow but important subject area, this volume seems a natural starting place for research.
  —DCA News

• Endorsement From Ter Ellingson
  University of Washington, Seattle: A very welcome addition to the resources available for teaching and research on its subject. It is impressively wide-ranging and comprehensive, and points the reader to a rich selection of valuable works for traditions and cultures throughout the world, including some little-known ones. It should be a part of any library's collection on world religion, music, and dance, and will be very useful both to general readers and to specialists seeking materials beyond their own areas of expertise.
• Endorsement From Laxmi G. Tewari
  Sonoma State University: [T]his ... is a monumental reference work for ethnomusicologists and anyone interested in music, culture, and religion. It is, as I read through this book, one of the most important of works.
• Endorsement From Richard L. Crocker
  University of California at Berkeley: Gardner Rust's impressive bibliography of The Music and Dance of the World's Religions gives a good and useful representation of research available in English on Western Latin medieval liturgy and chant. The bibliography is updated to guide the reader through the confusing mass of recent scholarly publications. It should be extremely helpful in an as yet uncharted territory.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• General References and Studies
• Asia: General References
• North Asia and Lapland: Shamanism
• China/Taiwan
• Tibet
• Korea
• Japan
• Mongolia
• Central Asia
• Southeast Asia
• South Asia: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan
• Zoroastrianism and the Parsis of India
• The Ancient Near East
• Music and Dance in the Bible
• Judaism
• European Christianity: General References, Histories, Surveys, and Liturgy
• The Church of Rome
• Western European Plainchant
• Western European Polyphony
• Liturgical Reforms of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Vatican II (1962-1965)
• Orthodox and Other Non-Latin Christian Rites: Liturgy and Music
• Religious Music in Great Britain
• Protestant Music on the European Continent
• Liturgical Dance and Drama
• Islam
• Music, Mathematics, and Mysticism
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• North America: Euro-American and Afro-American Religious Music: General References
• North America: Religious Music of Euro-American Origin
• North America: Afro-American Religious Music
• Spirituals and Gospels
• Contemporary Christian Music
• Jewish and Asian-American Religious Music
• Latin American and Afro-American Religious Music of Central and South America and the West Indies
• North American Indians: General References
• North American Indians: Music and Dance by Region
• Central and South American Indians
• Eskimo and Inuit Religious Music
• Oceania
• Addendum
• Author Index
• Subject Index