Kusamira Music in Uganda : Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing /

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"In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickness and maintain well-being. Peter J. Hoesing blends ethnomusicological fieldwork with analysis to examine how kusamira and nswezi performance socializes dynamic processes of illness, wellness,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoesing, Peter J., 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Spiritual healing.
Music therapy.
Music, Influence of.
Channeling (Spiritualism)
Traditional medicine.
MUSIC / General
Mediumnite > Ouganda.
Guerison par la foi > Ouganda.
Musique > Influence > Ouganda.
Musicotherapie > Ouganda.
Traditional medicine > Uganda.
Channeling (Spiritualism) > Uganda.
Spiritual healing > Uganda.
Music, Influence of > Uganda.
Music therapy > Uganda.
Uganda.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Situating Kusamira and Nswezi as Repertories of Well-Being
  • Repertories of Well-Being
  • Geographic and Fieldwork Context
  • Pathways to the Healer's Shrine
  • The Music: Instrumentation, Idioms, and Heterophony
  • Broader Impacts of Kusamira for Ethnographic Theory
  • From Divination to Diagnosis to Intervention
  • The Path Ahead
  • 1. Ritual Work in Twenty-First-Century Uganda: From Folk Well-Being to Ex-Colonial Professionalization
  • From (In)Visibility to Audibility: Traditional Healers in the Ugandan Ex-Colony
  • Struggles for Control and Productive Simultaneities in the Ugandan Ex-Colony
  • The Social Basis of Ugandan Health, Past and Present
  • "Living Positively": Indigenous Music and Medicine in the Time of AIDS
  • New Struggles for Control in Uganda
  • Ritual Musicking as Ritual Work
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Ecologies of Well-Being: Hearing the World through Ritual Repertories
  • Invoking the Twins
  • Ssewasswa: Performing Idioms of Risk and Abundance
  • Community and Ecology across Two Regions
  • Mayembe: Binding Spiritual Work and Ecology into Concentrated Space
  • Hunting, Gathering, and Joining: Ddungu the Hunter
  • Pantheons and Litanies, Fauna and Flora: Repertories of Practice
  • From Animals Back to Plants Again
  • Rivers and Other Waters, Trees and Other Plants
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Possessing Sound Medicine: Gathering Resources, Strengthening Networks, Composing Knowledge
  • Sanctuaries of Tradition
  • Spirit Mediums: Flexible Persons, Conduits to Networks, and Bearers of Knowledge
  • Okwaza: Searching for Spirits
  • Mayembe: The Musical Socialization of Spiritual Power
  • Gimme Shelter: Meeting Spirits' Demands for Places to Call Their Own
  • The Ritual Seriousness of Play
  • Ritual Innovation: High-Tech(ne) Hymnody
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Sacrifice and Song: Ritual Exchange and the Production of Relational Ideals
  • The Cultural Logic of Sacrifice: Singing and Praying, Blessing and Feeding
  • Hunting Productive Power: Sacrifice, Sexuality, and the Contours of Liminality
  • Omukolo gw'Emisambwa: The Rite of the Misambwa
  • Omukolo gwa Kiwanuka: The Rite of Kiwanuka
  • Rituals of New Life, Open Doors, and Fertility
  • Omukolo gwa Sserugulamilyango: The Ritual of the One Who Opens Doorways
  • Omukolo gw'Abakyala: Rite of the Women
  • Interlude: Kalalu (Little Wild One)
  • Omukolo gw'Amayembe: The Rite of the Mayembe (Working Spirits)
  • A Contrasting Example of Sacrifice: Irondo
  • Conclusion
  • 5. From Tea and Coffee Berries to Beer and Meat: Sound, Hospitality, and Feasting in Repertories of Well-Being
  • Coffee Berries, Groundnuts, and Banana Beer
  • Cleansing and Gratitude
  • Dancing with the Spirits: Well-Being beyond Therapeutics
  • Conclusion: Listening to Kusamira's Lessons on Well-Being Now.

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