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Auteur(s) : Kapchan, Deborah A.
Titre(s) : Traveling spirit masters [Texte imprimé] : Moroccan Gnawa trance and music in the global marketplace / Deborah Kapchan
Publication : Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan university press, 2007
Description matérielle : xiii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Music/culture
Lien à la collection : Music culture
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-313) and index. - נושא ישן: Islamic music - history and criticism
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 fast becoming a transnational sensation
Sujet(s) : Transe -- Afrique -- Histoire
Musique gnawah -- Influence
Musique -- Religion
Indice(s) Dewey :
203.7 (23e éd.) = Symbolisme, objets symboliques, sons (religion)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780819568519. - ISBN 0819568511. - ISBN 9780819568526. - ISBN 081956852X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452788708
Notice n° :
FRBNF45278870
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)