27633

    Recollecting From The Past Musical Practice and Spirit Possession on the East Coast of Madagascar

    Wesleyan University Press

    The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, ' Recollecting From The Past' evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of remembering the past, aesthetics of everyday life and Malagasy concepts of self and community. Ron Emoff focuses on tromba spirit possession ceremonies in which Malagasy use devotional practice as an occasion to expressively re-figure worlds often impeded by colonialism and postcolonial phenomena, extreme material poverty, and widespread illness. Malagasy not only preserve the past, but they interpret, revalue and transform it to their own ends. Music is crucial to these performances since powerful ancestral spirits will not enter into the present if not enticed by masterful musical performances, and so music itself provides a complex symbolic system with which Malagasy can recall and reconstruct the past. This groundbreaking study will be of interest to readers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, African studies, postcolonial and performance studies.

    Other Releases on Wesleyan University Press

    Roots in ReverseSenegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical CosmopolitanismWesleyan University Press
    £15 OFF!!!!! USA HARDBACK BOOK - no dustjacketRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the...
      • Book (700g) 9780819577085£30.00 £15.00
        In stockAdd to Bag
      Between Nostalgia and ApocalypsePopular Music and the Staging of BrazilWesleyan University Press
      £10 OFF THAT's 50% OFF!! WICKED USA IMPORT DEEP PAPERBACK BOOK ABOUT BRAZILIAN MUSIC Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse is a close-to-the-ground account...
        • Book (400g) 081957502X£20.00 £10.00
          In stockAdd to Bag

        People also bought

        Boombox Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap 79 - 82PosterSoul Jazz Records
        Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!! Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent with any other vinyl order item (LP/12" vinyl only) at NO extra...
          Boombox 3POSTERSoul Jazz Records
          Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!! Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent with any other vinyl order item (LP/12" vinyl only) at NO extra...
            Black Fire! New Spirits! PosterSoul Jazz Records
            Large deep, spiritual jazz poster for your bedroom wall, innit. Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!! Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent...
              Mars by 1980 - The Story of Electronic MusicBy David Stubbs
              New KILLER 100% essential MASSIVE 450+ pages book about the history of electronic music. 'Mars by 1980' is written by the very groovy David Stubbs, author...
                Understanding Jamaican PatoisAn Introduction to Afro-Jamaican GrammarLMH Publishing
                This easy-to-understand introduction to Afro-Jamaican grammar explains clearly and simply the basics of Jamaican patois. Never again will u mix up your...
                  Brian EnoVisual MusicChronicle Books
                  Visual Music is a one-of-a-kind guided tour through the visual art of creative polymath Brian Eno. Featuring more than 300 images of Eno's installation,...
                    Voodoo, Truth and Fantasy (aka Voodoo Search for the Spirit)By Laennec HurbonNew Horizons
                    A bit like the Rough Guide to Reggae - except for Voodoo. Recommended! Out of Africa came the cult of spirits who could enter human beings and cross...
                      • Original Book (250g) 9780810928572£8.00
                        Original UK paperback in ok condition - pages have gone wavy
                      Afrobeat!Fela and the Imagined ContinentAFRICA WORLD PRESS
                      In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tore his...
                        Flash Of The SpiritAfrican & Afro-American Art & PhilosophyVintage Books
                        NEARLY 50% OFF THIS BOOK!! CHEAPER THAN AMAZON!! This is the BIBLE on African-American culture and art. Seminal text!
                          Black Popular MusicIn Britain Since 1945Routledge
                          Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments...
                            King Leopold's GhostA Story Of Greed, Terror And Heroism In Colonial AfricaPan Books
                            Fantastic book - 100% essential In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast...
                              Modern BlacknessNationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in JamaicaUniversity of the West Indies Press
                              £25 ORIGINAL PRICE - YOU PAY JUST £10. That's £15 OFF USA IMPORT BOOK. Well deep and superb!! Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of...
                                • Book (600g) 9766401624£25.00 £10.00
                                  In stockAdd to Bag
                                Space FunkPOSTERSoul Jazz Records
                                Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!! Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent with any other vinyl order item (LP/12" vinyl only) at NO extra...
                                  Black Drama Anthologyby Ron Milner & Woodie KingA Meridian Book
                                  Includes work by Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka
                                    • Original Book (350g)£15.00
                                      s/hand USA out of print paperback in ok cond (sticker on front)
                                    Mama Lola: A Voodoo Priestess in BrooklynBy Karen McCarthy BrownUniversity of California
                                    Karen McCarthy Brown's "Mama Lola" challenges stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores...
                                      • Book (600g) 9780520224759£14.99
                                        In stockAdd to Bag
                                      • Original Book (600g)£10.00
                                        Original out of print secondhand book in good cond.
                                        100% guarantee on this and all original books at Sounds of the Universe.
                                      Black Fire! New Spirits! BOOKImages of A Revolution : Radical Jazz in the USA 1960-75Soul Jazz Books
                                      Sorry. Out of Print. Featuring: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Roland Kirk, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Alice...
                                          Bob MarleyThe Untold Story by Chris SalewiczHarperCollins
                                          'Salewicz invades and illuminates Marley's privacy more effectively than previous biographers' - The Sunday Times   'Essential biography that also traces...
                                            Freedom, Rhythm and SoundPOSTERSoul Jazz Records
                                            Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!! Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent with any other vinyl order item (LP/12" vinyl only) at NO extra...
                                              Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari – Tales Of MozambiquePosterSoul Jazz Records
                                              Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!! Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent with any other vinyl order item (LP/12" vinyl only) at NO extra...