El Rocío: A Case Study of Music and Ritual in Andalucía

Poole, W. Gerard

El Rocío: A Case Study of Music and Ritual in Andalucía

dc.contributor.advisor	Robertson, Carolina	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Poole, W. Gerard	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Music	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-06-22T05:36:33Z
dc.date.available	2007-06-22T05:36:33Z
dc.date.issued	2007-04-26
dc.description.abstract	Music is central to the processional pilgrimage of El Rocío, which attracts hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Andalusia, Spain, late each spring. The pilgrimage affords a unique view, in microcosm, of the relationships between music and ritual from both ritual-studies and ethnomusicological perspectives. Based on extensive fieldwork and other research, this dissertation explores the nexus of the Catholic ritual system in Andalusia, flamenco, and the specific music of El Rocío: the Sevillanas Rocieras. That nexus becomes clear through exploration of three particular features of the pilgrimage: (1) the devotional processions that generate a single, focused, collective emotion; (2) the Andalusian musical form called the palo; and (3) the informal musical gatherings called juergas, which take place nightly along the route. Analysis of structural and morphological relationships between ritual, music, and emotion yields surprising realizations about how these three elements come together as embodied aesthetics within a communitas to generate popular culture. Another important finding of this work is the necessity of placing, at the center of the inquiry, the religious experience—including the curious Andalusian phenomenon of the “chaotic” emotional procession and its role within the overall pilgrimage and ritual system. The dissertation concludes with two theoretical positions. The first addresses the process of “emotional structuring” and its role within the musical rituals of El Rocío and, by extension, Andalusia. The second advances a theory of ritual relations with potential application to ritual systems beyond Andalusia. The author presents both positions within an evolutionary framework based on the tenets of biomusicology, neurophenomenology, and Peircean semiotics.	en_US
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6890
dc.language.iso	en_US
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dc.subject.pqcontrolled	Music	en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolled	Anthropology, Cultural	en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolled	Sociology, Social Structure and Development	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	flamenco	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	sevillanas	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	ritual	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	Catholicism	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	procession	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	fandangos	en_US
dc.title	El Rocío: A Case Study of Music and Ritual in Andalucía	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US