Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia

Name: Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
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ISBN: 9780226392196

ISBN-10: 0226392198

ISBN-13: 9780226392196

Edition: 2010

Authors: Richard C. Jankowsky

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InStambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits and North African Muslim saints to heal humans through ritualized trance. Based on nearly two years of participation in the musical, ritual, and social worlds of stambeli musicians, Jankowsky's study explores the way the music evokes the cross-cultural, migratory past of its originators and their encounters with the Arab-Islamic world in which they found themselves. Stambeli, Jankowsky avers, is thoroughly…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.68" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Richard C. Jankowsky is associate professor of music at Tufts University.