Traveling Spirit Masters : Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace /

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. This book on Gnawa music and its global reach is a demonstration of how and why trance - and indeed all sacred music - is fas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kapchan, Deborah A. (Deborah Anne) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gnawa (Brotherhood)
Religiös musik > Marocko.
Arabisk musik.
Musik > fysiologiska aspekter.
Trance music
Islamic music > History and criticism
Islamic music > Morocco
Trance music > Morocco
Music > Physiological effect
Music, Influence of
Internationalisatie.
Tarika's.
Muziek.
Riten.
Trance
Musik
Medizin
Islam
Gnawa
Trance music.
Sufi music.
Music > Physiological effect.
Music, Influence of.
Musique soufie > Maroc > Histoire et critique.
Transe, Musique de > Maroc > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Effets physiologiques.
Musique > Influence.
Sufi music > Morocco > History and criticism.
Trance music > Morocco > History and criticism.
Marokko.
Marokko
Morocco.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Emplacement
  • Intoxication
  • "A gesture narrowly divides us from chaos" : gesture and word in trance time
  • Working the spirits : the entranced body, the entranced word
  • On the threshold of a dream
  • The chellah gardens
  • Money and the spirit
  • In France with the Gnawa
  • Narratives of epiphany : indexing global links
  • Possessing Gnawa culture : displaying sound, creating history in Dar Gnawa
  • Conclusion: The alchemy of the musical imagination.

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