Hare Krishna mantra in Prague streets: the sacred, music and trance












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            * Zuzana Jurková - Veronika Seidlová
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            Abstrakt

            The article introduces one of the regular outdoor musical events in Prague – the harinam, 
            of Hare Krishna devotees. This event is set in the broader context of music as an integral
            religious rituals and/or holidays. The universal connection of music and spirituality is f

            extreme positions: as culturally determined or as universalistic/objectivistic. One of the
            understand spirituality as intrinsically present in music and thus the connection of the s
            as objective, is an Indian tradition. Its two basic approaches, that is, the Vedic “Apollo

            and the “Dionysian” concept, present in various directions, e.g., Tantrism, are actually p
            Hare Krishna procession. Our attention is drawn to the interpretation of the strikingly cu

            elements of this “Dionysian” stream. Using Judith Becker’s (2004) concept of trance, the P
            shows itself to be like a culturally conditioned form of universal models of spiritual mus


            Klíčová slova
            Hare Krishna, mantra, trance, deep listening, ethnomusicology


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            Zuzana Jurková [ URL "LM-202.html "]

            Veronika Seidlová [ URL "LM-339.html "]