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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jankowsky, Richard C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Colección:Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Temas:
Blacks > Tunisia > Rites and ceremonies.
Music > Religious aspects.
Music > Tunisia > History and criticism.
Spirit possession > Tunisia.
Stambali (Rite).
MUSIC / General.
music, musical studies, trance, tunisia, tunisian, ethnography, ethnographic research, healing trances, sub-saharan, north africa, muslims, religion, religious study, faith, islam, ritualized, ritualization, social worlds, migration, migratory, otherness, spirits, instruments, cultural, culture, aesthetics, history, historical, arab, rites, ceremony, possession, slave trade, slavery, movement, pilgrimage, vocality, displacement, emplacement.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on spelling and transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Part I Histories and Geographies of Encounter
  • Chapter one. Encountering the Other People: alterity, possession, ethnography
  • Chapter two. Displacement and Emplacement the trans-Saharan slave trade and the emergence of stambēlī
  • Chapter three. Black Spirits, White Saints: geographies of encounter in the stambēlī pantheon
  • Part II Musical Aesthetics and Ritual Dynamics
  • Chapter four. Voices of Ritual Authority: musicians, instruments, and vocality
  • Chapter five. Sounding the Spirits the ritual dynamics of temporality, modality, and density
  • Chapter six. Trance, Healing, and the Bodily Experience: from individual affliction to collective appeasement
  • Part III Movements and Trajectories
  • Chapter seven. Pilgrimage and Place: local performances, transnational imaginaries
  • Chapter eight. Stambēlī on Stage (re)presentations, musical cosmopolitanism, and the public sphere
  • Chapter nine. Conclusion: music, trance, and alterity
  • Epilogue (with notes on audio examples)
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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