Musicalizing the Heart Sutra: Buddhism, Sound, and Media in Contemporary Japan

In Japan, explicitly religious content is not commonly found in popular music. Against this mainstream tendency, since approximately 2008, ecclesiastic and non-ecclesiastic actors alike have made musical arrangements of the Heart Sutra. What do these musical arrangements help us to understand about...

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Main Author: Reehl, Duncan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 9
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Music
B Media
B Japanese modernity
B Secularism
B Buddhist ethics
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