Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Digital Technology and Cultural Practice
- Personal Take: Whatever Happened to Tape-Trading?
- 2 Toward a History of Digital Music: New Technologies, Business Practices and Intellectual Property Regimes
- Personal Take: On Serving as an Expert Witness in the ‘Blurred Lines’ Case
- 3 Shaping the Stream: Techniques and Troubles of Algorithmic Recommendation
- Personal Take: Being a Curator
- Personal Take: Can Machines Have Taste?
- 4 Technologies of the Musical Selfie
- Personal Take: Vaporwave is Dead, Long Live Vaporwave!
- 5 Witnessing Race in the New Digital Cinema
- Personal Take: Giving History a Voice
- 6 Digital Devotion: Musical Multimedia in Online Ritual and Religious Practice
- Personal Take: Technicians of Ecstasy
- Personal Take: Live Coded Mashup with the Humming Wires
- Personal Take: Algorave: Dancing to Algorithms
- 7 Rethinking Liveness in the Digital Age
- Personal Take: Augmenting Musical Performance
- Personal Take: Digital Demons, Real and Imagined
- Personal Take: Composing with Sounds as Images
- Personal Take: Compositional Approaches to Film, TV and Video Games
- 8 Virtual Worlds from Recording to Video Games
- 9 Digital Voices: Posthumanism and the Generation of Empathy
- Personal Take: In the Wake of the Virtual
- 10 Digital Inequalities and Global Sounds
- 11 The Political Economy of Streaming
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
6 - Digital Devotion: Musical Multimedia in Online Ritual and Religious Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Digital Technology and Cultural Practice
- Personal Take: Whatever Happened to Tape-Trading?
- 2 Toward a History of Digital Music: New Technologies, Business Practices and Intellectual Property Regimes
- Personal Take: On Serving as an Expert Witness in the ‘Blurred Lines’ Case
- 3 Shaping the Stream: Techniques and Troubles of Algorithmic Recommendation
- Personal Take: Being a Curator
- Personal Take: Can Machines Have Taste?
- 4 Technologies of the Musical Selfie
- Personal Take: Vaporwave is Dead, Long Live Vaporwave!
- 5 Witnessing Race in the New Digital Cinema
- Personal Take: Giving History a Voice
- 6 Digital Devotion: Musical Multimedia in Online Ritual and Religious Practice
- Personal Take: Technicians of Ecstasy
- Personal Take: Live Coded Mashup with the Humming Wires
- Personal Take: Algorave: Dancing to Algorithms
- 7 Rethinking Liveness in the Digital Age
- Personal Take: Augmenting Musical Performance
- Personal Take: Digital Demons, Real and Imagined
- Personal Take: Composing with Sounds as Images
- Personal Take: Compositional Approaches to Film, TV and Video Games
- 8 Virtual Worlds from Recording to Video Games
- 9 Digital Voices: Posthumanism and the Generation of Empathy
- Personal Take: In the Wake of the Virtual
- 10 Digital Inequalities and Global Sounds
- 11 The Political Economy of Streaming
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the role of music and sacred sound in three types of digital devotional rituals, interpreting these through the lenses of scholarship in media, music and religious studies. In examining these digital devotional practices, including virtual pilgrimages, digital music resources for offline use, and online devotional screen media, the chapter addresses several interrelated questions, including how and in what contexts music is used in online ritual; to what extent music connects online and offline religious practices; and how engaging in music within participatory digital technologies is changing how people experience and practice their religious faith. Addressing these questions through the lens of musical and audio-visual experience will help scholars understand and assess the implications of music within the digital apparatus on religious authority, religious experience and the formation of religious communities.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture , pp. 150 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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