Stambeli : music, trance, and alterity in Tunisia.
In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits and North Afr...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
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| Sarja: | Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
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| Linkit: | Compte rendu en ligne : Cahiers d'ethnomusicologie, n° 25, 2012. |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Histories and geographies of encounter
- Encountering the other people: alterity, possession, ethnography
- Displacement and emplacement: the trans-Saharan slave trade and the emergence of Stambeli
- Black spirits, white saints: geographies of encounter in the Stambeli pantheon
- Musical aesthetics and ritual dynamics
- Voices of ritual authority: musicians, instruments, and vocality
- Sounding the spirits: the ritual dynamics of temporality, modality, and sonic density
- Trance, healing, and the bodily experience: from individual affliction to collective appeasement
- Movements and trajectories
- Pilgrimage and place: local performances, transnational imaginaries
- Stambeli on stage: (re)presentations, musical cosmopolitanism, and the public sphere
- Conclusion: music, trance, and alterity
- Epilogue (with notes on audio examples).