Acknowledgments

Music Worlding in Palau: An Introduction
Meaningfulness
Music Worlding
Intensity
Atmospheres
This Book
Music Worlding in Palau
Music Worlding in Palau: The Background

1 Latmikaik’s Children and Their Music
Palau
North Atlantic narratives of Palauan history
Meaningfulness
Schmitz on Meaningfulness
Surfaceless: Beyond the Binaries
Musical Meaning | Musical Meaningfulness
Musical Meaningfulness and Atmospheres

2 Vaguely Specific: Resonant Historicity with Chesóls
Chesols Meaningfulness
Suggestions of Motion
Sound’s History Lives on
Intensity: A Closer Look
Musical Meaningfulness as Latently Historical
Conclusion

3 Listening with the Dancing Body: Ruk and Movement’s Incipiency
A Sense of Klebelau: Going through the Motions
The Body Complex and Sound
Schmitz and the Threshold
Preacceleration | Suggestions of Motion
The Dance of the Not-Yet in New Phenomenological Perspective: mSuggestions of
Motion in Palauan Ruk
Body percussion
Group shouts
Rhythmic layering and densification
Conclusion: The Body in Sound and Motion

4 “Rak, Where Is He Now?” Presence | Present
Present, Presence, Meaningfulness
Omengeredakl
Sense Effects | Presence Effects
Music, Meaning, and Meaningfulness
Meaningfully Present

5 Resonance: Co-Becoming with Sound
Ngerulmud 2006: The Mother Bat
Resonance
Resonance: Conceptual Implications
Revisiting the Mother Bat
Conclusion

6 Of Magic and Meaningfulness : Chelitákl Rechuódel and the Felt-bodily Dimensions of Spiritual Practice
Magic | Olai
Present-day Magic
Magically Meaningful

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index