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Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life - Brossura

Perman, Tony

 
9780252085178: Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life
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ISBN 10: 0252085175 ISBN 13: 9780252085178
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2020

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In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity.

Perman's encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to experience life's milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a group. Signs of the Spirit

explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future. The result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the immediacy of musical experience and the forces that transform ceremonial performance into emotions and community.

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Tony Perman is an assistant professor of music at Grinnell College.

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Editore
Univ of Illinois Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0252085175
ISBN 13 
9780252085178
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
269
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