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Music / Culture Ser.: Traveling Spirit Masters : Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace by Deborah Kapchan (2007, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWesleyan University Press
ISBN-10081956852X
ISBN-139780819568526
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038477654
Product Key Features
Number of Pages362 Pages
Publication NameTraveling Spirit Masters : Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Criticism, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Africa / General, Religious / Muslim, General
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMusic, Science, History
AuthorDeborah Kapchan
SeriesMusic / Culture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2007-016405
Reviews"Traveling Spirit Masters will ... prove to be of greater interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies."--Jeffrey Callen, Review of Middle East Studies / MESA Bulletin "This book is lucid, imaginative, and impressively erudite. It consistently demonstrates the importance of performance in the formation, circulation, and transformation of identity, and pays attention to the workings of image and power in their minutest details."--Susan Slyomovics, author of The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco, Traveling Spirit Masters will ... prove to be of greater interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies., "This book is lucid, imaginative, and impressively erudite. It consistently demonstrates the importance of performance in the formation, circulation, and transformation of identity, and pays attention to the workings of image and power in their minutest details."--Susan Slyomovics, author of The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco "This book is lucid, imaginative, and impressively erudite. It consistently demonstrates the importance of performance in the formation, circulation, and transformation of identity, and pays attention to the workings of image and power in their minutest details."--Susan Slyomovics, author of The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco "Kapchan takes things, words, actions, and meanings seriously in their inescapably messy intermingling. An original, engrossing and thought-provoking addition to the literature on spirit possession and an eye-opening account of what it means to be entranced by culture."--Veit Erlmann, endowed chair of music history, University of Texas at Austin, "Traveling Spirit Masters will … prove to be of greater interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies."-Jeffrey Callen, Review of Middle East Studies / MESA Bulletin, "Traveling Spirit Masters will ... prove to be of greater interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies."--Jeffrey Callen, Review of Middle East Studies / MESA Bulletin, "Traveling Spirit Masters will ... prove to be of greater interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies."-Jeffrey Callen, Review of Middle East Studies / MESA Bulletin, "Traveling Spirit Masters will É prove to be of greater interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies."ÑJeffrey Callen, Review of Middle East Studies / MESA Bulletin, "Traveling Spirit Masters will prove to be of greater interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies."-Jeffrey Callen, Review of Middle East Studies / MESA Bulletin
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.4/842292764
Table Of ContentFigures Transcription Introduction: Initiation PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF POSSESSION Chapter One: Emplacement Chapter Two: Intoxication Chapter Three: "A Gesture Narrowly Divides Us From Chaos": Gesture and Word in Trance Time Chapter Four: Working the Spirits: The Entranced Body, The Entranced Word Chapter Five: On the Threshold of a Dream Chapter Six: The Chellah Gardens PART TWO: POSSESSING CULTURE Chapter Seven: Money and the Spirit Chapter Eight: In France with the Gnawa Chapter Nine: Narratives of Epiphany Chapter Ten: Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History in Dar Gnawa Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: The Alchemy of the Musical Imagination Chapter Twelve: Epilogue
SynopsisThe sacred and musical phenomenon of trance A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, author Deborah Kapchan explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams they produce. Her narrative details the fascinating intrinsic properties of trance, including details of enactment, the role of gesture and the body, and the use of the senses, and how they both construct authentic Gnawa identity and reconstruct historically determined relations of power. Traveling Spirit Masters is a captivating and elucidating demonstration of how and why trance--and indeed all sacred music--is fast becoming a transnational sensation., A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, author Deborah Kapchan explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams they produce. Her narrative details the fascinating intrinsic properties of trance, including details of enactment, the role of gesture and the body, and the use of the senses, and how they both construct authentic Gnawa identity and reconstruct historically determined relations of power. Traveling Spirit Masters is a captivating and elucidating demonstration of how and why trance--and indeed all sacred music--is fast becoming a transnational sensation., The sacred and musical phenomenon of trance A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, author Deborah Kapchan explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams they produce. Her narrative details the fascinating intrinsic properties of trance, including details of enactment, the role of gesture and the body, and the use of the senses, and how they both construct authentic Gnawa identity and reconstruct historically determined relations of power. Traveling Spirit Masters is a captivating and elucidating demonstration of how and why trance?and indeed all sacred music?is fast becoming a transnational sensation.
LC Classification NumberML3920.K15 2007
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