Traveling Spirit Masters Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace

Name: Traveling Spirit Masters Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace
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ISBN: 9780819568526

ISBN-10: 081956852X

ISBN-13: 9780819568526

Edition: 2007

Authors: Deborah Kapchan

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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. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, author Deborah Kapchan explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



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Introduction: Initiation



The Culture of Possession



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



Possessing Culture



Money and the Spirit



In France with the Gnawa



Narratives of Epiphany



Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History in Dar Gnawa



Conclusion: The Alchemy of the Musical Imagination



Epilogue