Remains of Ritual Northern Gods in a Southern Land

Name: Remains of Ritual Northern Gods in a Southern Land
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226265056

ISBN-10: 0226265056

ISBN-13: 9780226265056

Edition: 2009

Authors: Steven M. Friedson, S. M. Friedson

List price: $33.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy used: $7.25

Buy new: $33.60

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.77

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson7;s second book on the critical role of music in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. In each chapter of this fascinating book, Friedson considers a different facet of the Ewe7;s religious practices, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality-in the Brekete world music functions as ritual, and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Steven M. Friedson is Distinguished Research Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of North Texas and the author of Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


On Language


Note on Transcriptions


Southern Lands


Northern Gods


Brekete Pantheon



Where Divine Horsemen Ride



Salah! Salah!



The Poured Gift



Deadland



The Rhythm of the Crossroads



Burials


Coda: Opening the Door


Postlude


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index