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THE WORLD OF ROMAN SONG From Ritualized Speech to Social Order
by Habinek, Thomas
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0801881056
- ISBN 13
- 9780801881053
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Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0801881056 . Lower corner very lightly bumped else book is fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; In this bold work, Thomas Habinek offers an entirely new theoretical perspective on Roman cultural history. Although English words such as "literature" and "religion" have their origins in Latin, the Romans had no such specific concepts. Rather, much of the sense of these words was captured in the Latin word carmen, usually translated into English as "song." Habinek argues that for the Romans, "song" encompassed a wide range of ritualized speech, including elements of poetry, storytelling, and even the casting of spells. Habinek begins with the fraternal societies, or sodalitates, which predated the Republic and endured into the Imperial era, and whose rites, although adapted over time to different deities and cults, were from the beginning centered on song (perhaps most notably in the ancient Carmen Saliare). He goes on to show how this early use of song became a paradigm for cultural reproduction throughout Roman history. Ritual mastery of the chaos of everyday life, embodied and enacted in song, produced and transmitted the beliefs on which Roman culture was founded and by which Roman communities were sustained. By the emergence of the Empire, "song," in all of its senses, served in particular to reproduce the power of the state, organizing relations of power at every level of society. ; 344 pages .
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- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19444
- Title
- THE WORLD OF ROMAN SONG From Ritualized Speech to Social Order
- Author
- Habinek, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0801881056
- ISBN 13
- 9780801881053
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 0801881056, Music & Musicology, Social & Cultural
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