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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-56254-0
- Pages
- 111 –135
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-56255-7_5
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This chapter zooms in on the bond between nature and art of religious inspiration focusing on the musical production of Octavian Nemescu. He created a Meta-Byzantine style, regarded by various categories of critics either as an inconvenient deviation from historical Byzantine musical canons (the Byzantine purists’ critique) or as a digression from national communism’s cultural policy. This case study illustrates that the return to humans’ spiritual bond with nature can be understood as a form of “prophetic activism” (Block) and spiritual awakening, whereby the Meta-Byzantine style has been deployed as a discursive strategy. These musical creations do not only epitomize the synthesis of two musical cultures (Eastern and Western) or of two religious styles—traditional Romanian, local oriented and ecumenical Meta-Byzantine—but also politically re-evaluate the sacred.]
Published: Oct 23, 2020
Keywords: Meta-Byzantine music; Octavian Nemescu; Byzantine musical canons; Romanian national communism; Re-evaluation of the sacred chant; Spiritual awakening